[asterisk-dev] Problems with ast_realloc Version 1.4.5

[Russell Bryant]

Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> Alloca() does not allocate memory on the heap, like malloc() and  
> friends.  It allocates memory on the stack.  That's why you can't  
> realloc the pointer.

However, I think we have an ast_realloca() somewhere, but the name is quite 
deceiving.  It doesn't reallocate anything.  It just allocates a new block on 
the stack and copies the data from the old buffer into the new one.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.