The C++ standard committee has a lot of internal disagreement on many topics, presenting them as a unified body is disingenuous. What I state is the position of

The C++ standard committee has a lot of internal disagreement on many topics, presenting them as a unified body is disingenuous. What I state is the position of a sizeable minority. And yes, you shouldn't use realloc... but what should you do if your buffer size is more than half of your physical memory?