ftp bug report

Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
Thu Feb 19 19:27:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Thomas Mellman wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >As an exercise for the reader:
> >
> >  buf = (char *) malloc (size);
> >  to = buf;
> >  [...]
> >  if (newsize > size)
> >    buf = realloc (buf, newsize);
> >  while (newsize--)
> >    *to++ = *src++;
> >
> >What's wrong with this picture?
> >
>
> Oh, I hope there's an answer section in the back
> of the book.
>
Hint: realloc can move the data, returning a different base address.

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Brian Ford
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FlightSafety International
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