Re: Patch:4939

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 17:53:13 EDT

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According to Robert Wilhelm <robert.wilhelm@gmx.net>:
> In 4939 we call UT_UTF8Stringbuf::grow(0) with an still empty
> UT_UTF8Stringbuf.
> This leads to malloc(0) and than later crash or confusion,
> depending what this malloc returns.

Other solution is : always use realloc() :-)

Because realloc(0) returns NULL, it is safe.

Hub

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