Re: [Devel] problem with ft_mem_debug_realloc

[David Turner]

Hello Werner,

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> David,
>
>
> in ft_mem_debug_realloc there is the following test:
>
>   if ( block == NULL || cur_size == 0 )
>     ft_mem_debug_panic( "trying to reallocate NULL in (%s:%ld)",
>                         file_name, line_no );
>
> Why?  According to the realloc() man page, this case is equivalent to
> malloc(), thus valid.  There is code (Update_Max in TT_Load_Context)
> which needs this functionality.
>
> I've commented this out.  Please check.
This function is never called directly, and cannot receive block == NULL
in normal cases. The check was just there to debug the memory debugger
itself :-)

Though you could still keep it, just in case some really bad things
in cases of wild memory overwrites, or something else...

Best Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

>     Werner
>
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