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I don't understand how one can claim to "invent" reallocarray. Glib has had g_realloc_n() since 2010, but its not something being touted as a huge invention. It
by alexlarsson 12y ago
I don't understand how one can claim to "invent" reallocarray. Glib has had g_realloc_n() since 2010, but its not something being touted as a huge invention. Its a tiny helper. Very useful, but quite obvious.
- dijit 12y agoI think the Author is saying that people often use BSD code or ideas and reimplement them to be fundamentally incompatible yet using the same name. this means that, as a developer, when calling these functions you can't be sure of if you're calling it in a safe way.. openBSD makes code deliberately designed to be portable, and other BSD's make it non-portable by altering it in odd ways, yielding dangerous consequences by reusing the namespace.