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Message-ID: <CAPLrYETGwSKVHrc09hFKf4iBU2aX-RyPYbJ5D28OA0t2QfJjuA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:19:11 +0200
From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: thoughts on reallocarray, explicit_bzero?

2014-05-19 17:43 GMT+02:00 Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>:

>>
>> Should musl provide reallocarray()?
>
> I don't think so; there's no precedent for it yet except OpenBSD.
> LibreSSL should just add a fallback implementation (trivial to write
> as a wrapper to realloc) for all non-OpenBSD systems that lack it.

The problem is that these functions are now used everywhere in
openbsd's repo., so it's not just LibreSSL but ed, pax, mandoc, m4,
(open)ssh, (open)smtpd, etc.

Thanks,
Daniel

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