test-skeleton.c (xrealloc): Support realloc-as-free

If the requested size is zero, realloc returns NULL, but the
deallocation is still successful, unless the pointer is also
NULL, when realloc behaves as malloc (0).

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5f9edb4..4bfee94 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2016-06-23  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
 
+       * test-skeleton.c (xrealloc): Support deallocation with n == 0.
+
+2016-06-23  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
        * test-skeleton.c (xmalloc, xcalloc, xrealloc): Mark as
        potentially unused.
 

diff --git a/test-skeleton.c b/test-skeleton.c
index 0be4af1..d9bf989 100644 (file)
--- a/test-skeleton.c
+++ b/test-skeleton.c
@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ __attribute__ ((unused))
 static void *
 xrealloc (void *p, size_t n)
 {
-  p = realloc (p, n);
-  if (p == NULL)
+  void *result = realloc (p, n);
+  if (result == NULL && (n > 0 || p == NULL))
     oom_error ("realloc", n);
-  return p;
+  return result;
 }
 
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