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Reallocating Memory

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Glenn9999

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Has anyone done any project where they reallocated memory with a specific pointer? I'm trying to do that and it seems to not be supported? Any ideas anyone has on this will be welcome.

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Glenn, can you be more specific (where do you want to use it)?

reallocating memory is offcourse supported. But it *can* fail. In fact the VCL uses reallocation whole the time.
what API do you want use (or are you using)? Beware this is a tricky subject...

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Glenn, can you be more specific (where do you want to use it)?
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I'm trying to alter some untyped memory. I figured out that I couldn't use getmem/freemem in that case. Of course, if the memory size gets larger, then I still have to reallocate a larger block. But the problem still seems that I keep getting back the same block of memory no matter what I do, which is causing problems with getting my code that's doing the alterations correct.

So I'm wondering if there's any good solution out there for this one before I end up writing my own memory manager to accomodate this function.

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But the problem still seems that I keep getting back the same block of memory
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that could happen with realloc. due to fragmentation.
-> show me code
what delphi version are you using?
No need to write a new memory manager, FastMM4 should meet all your needs.

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I got it solved. Thanks.

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you want to share the solution?

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It was a logic error specific to the code I was working on, involving a misplaced pointer address.

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