jl> Is there something wrong with realloc() in Watcom C/C++ 10.0a?

 jl> When I run the following program with parameters 2000...3000, my swapfile
 jl> starts growing like crazy (from ca. 14 MB to 23 MB 
 jl> even if the size of 2000 DATA items is only 360000 
 jl> bytes).

A workaround is to call _heapmin() inside of your loop.

Either watcom's realloc() is stupid (not even trying to join any adjacent
free memory blocks),  or it's an outright bug.   I'll forward your message
to them.


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