Re: proper realloc(p,0) behavior?

[Eric Blake]

On 03/25/2011 07:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/25/2011 02:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Would anyone object to this patch?
> 
> Not me, but it should be documented in capital letters in NEWS...

diff --git i/NEWS w/NEWS
index 767d0ab..d19ac13 100644
--- i/NEWS
+++ w/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ User visible incompatible changes

 Date        Modules         Changes

+2011-03-25  xmalloc         xrealloc(p, 0) now calls xalloc_die instead of
+                            freeing p, to keep the guarantee that x*alloc
+                            never returns NULL.
+
 2011-03-08  regex-quote     The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
                             but instead a pointer to a previously
constructed
                             'struct regex_quote_spec'.
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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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