2012/1/30 Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>: > That's what realloc() does. Well, "resize the buffer if possible" would > be more accurate. ^_^' What I meant was: I do a free()/malloc() each time someone asks for the buffer. It would be more efficient to check if the old buffer is big enough to be re-used or if it needs to be increased using realloc() and then re-used. Tanguy