C's syntax (was Re: Python Formatted C Converter (PfCC))

[Rainer Deyke]

"William Tanksley" <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote in message
news:slrn8vgskg.uqr.wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net...
> For example, it's generally conceded that realloc has too many functions:
> it does downsizing, allocation, and upsizing.  At least one of those
> functions (preferably allocation) should be removed.

Then people would have to write a wrapper function which re-includes that
capability.  There are, believe it or not, cases where all of realloc's
capabilities are needed (or at least useful).  For example, what if you want
a resizable array that can be reduced to (or starts at) size zero?


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