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| author | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 2003-09-04 13:02:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 2003-09-04 13:02:57 +0000 |
| commit | d9c3805a73aea84f5c054e4022ada63e28ce6b99 (patch) | |
| tree | 8757185f5481f2c34ebd647c37e6b5206551d66e /cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c | |
| parent | 2003-09-04 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> (diff) | |
| download | rtems-d9c3805a73aea84f5c054e4022ada63e28ce6b99.tar.bz2 | |
2003-09-04 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
PR 479/rtems_misc
* src/malloc.c: Per multiple standards realloc does not free the
original memory if the allocation of the requested larger block
fails.
Diffstat (limited to 'cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c b/cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c index e89408284d..b8139e8370 100644 --- a/cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c +++ b/cpukit/libcsupport/src/malloc.c @@ -279,8 +279,13 @@ void *realloc( MSBUMP(malloc_calls, -1); /* subtract off the malloc */ + /* + * There used to be a free on this error case but it is wrong to + * free the memory per OpenGroup Single UNIX Specification V2 + * and the C Standard. + */ + if ( !new_area ) { - free( ptr ); return (void *) 0; } |