Hi Philipp, On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 02:55:03PM +0100, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > Am 06.01.26 um 21:12 schrieb Robert Seacord: > > I'm still waiting to hear from GCC that they plan to change the behavior > > of realloc and break their existing code.  If GCC plans to do this, it > > could well change my vote. > > Not GCC here. > > SDCC changed its malloc/realloc aligning it with Alejandro's proposal a few > months ago, and the new behaviour will be in the next release (SDCC 4.6.0). > > We made this decision after discussion among SDCC developers and users, and > think that this is the best solution for SDCC and its users. We are not > making any statement about this solution being appropriate for the standard > or other implementations. Wow! Thanks! That makes it two implementations that have already changed to adapt to this behavior after the proposal: - SDCC (SDCC 4.6.0) - gnulib (2024-11) Plus of course the POSIX standard itself. That's looking good. Have a lovely night! Alex > > Philipp > --