Commit f7600a71 authored by JP Dinger's avatar JP Dinger

Introduce realloc_or_free(), which does what realloc() does but will free the...

Introduce realloc_or_free(), which does what realloc() does but will free the argument if the reallocation fails. This is useful in some, but not all, use cases of realloc().
parent 27e9a1b0
/*****************************************************************************
* vlc_memory.h: Memory functions
*****************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 2009 the VideoLAN team
*
* Authors: JP Dinger <jpd at videolan dot org>
*
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*****************************************************************************/
#ifndef VLC_MEMORY_H
#define VLC_MEMORY_H 1
/**
* \file
* This file deals with memory fixups
*/
/**
* \defgroup memory Memory
* @{
*/
/**
* This wrapper around realloc() will free the input pointer when
* realloc() returns NULL. The use case ptr = realloc(ptr, newsize) will
* cause a memory leak when ptr pointed to a heap allocation before,
* leaving the buffer allocated but unreferenced. vlc_realloc() is a
* drop-in replacement for that use case (and only that use case).
*/
static inline void *realloc_or_free( void *p, size_t sz )
{
void *n = realloc(p,sz);
if( !n )
free(p);
return n;
}
/**
* @}
*/
#endif
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