Potential memory leak in g_realloc, gtk 1.0.6

["Koen D'Hondt" <ripley xs4all nl>]

Hi,

Sorry if this has already been reported a thousand times or already has
been fixed in the gtk development versions.

What I've seen is: inside g_realloc (glib/mem.c), NULL is returned if
the size to allocate equals zero.

This is IMHO a potential memory leak for application programmers that
assume g_realloc will actually perform a free when realloc is called
with a zero size and a non-zero ptr.

If this is intended, I'd like to understand why as I fail to see any
reasons to this behavior.

Cheers,
Koen D'Hondt.
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