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Re: Can realloc be marked as a mallloc-like function?


> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:39:39PM -0000, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> > > int *p;
> > > p = malloc (4);
> > > *p = 0;
> > > p = realloc (p, 4);
> > > *p = 1;
> > 
> > By that reasoning, consider:
> > 
> >  int *p;
> >  p = malloc (4);
> >  *p = 0;
> >  free(p);
> >  p = malloc (4);
> >  *p = 1;
> 
> Except that in the first sequence, the value of *p is retained across
> the reallocation, so "*p = 0" is not dead.  The two examples aren't
> really the same at all.

I'm not saying they are the same.  But, how does gcc determine that it
can move "*p = 0" after realloc()?  Does it treat realloc() specially
and insert a run-time check to look at its result to compare it with
the old pointer?  That would seem like a dubious feature totally
independent of __attribute_malloc__.

Surely you agree that in my second example, "*p = 0" _cannot_ be moved
after the call to destroy_something_and_allocate_anotherthing(p)?

Regards,
Wolfram.


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