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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:58:04 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@...eferenced.org>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: perhaps we should add re[c]allocarray?
* Rich Felker:
> recallocarray presumably needs to zero the new part which means it
> needs to know the old exact size, which means it depends on having
> either knowledge of implementation internals or a working, exact
> malloc_usable_size (AFAIK all legacy/existing ones except musl
> mallocng are broken and return a value greater than the originally
> allocated size).
The caller has to pass the old member count to recallocarray, in an
additional argument. I think this avoids this particular issue, and
also makes it easy to achive interposition-safety.
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