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BUG#: 9244
TITLE: realloc usage in Pegasus is troublesome leading to leak memory on unable to realloc

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#ifndef Pegasus_inl_h 
# define Pegasus_inl_h

/* 
 * This file is intended to hold small convnient inline functions.
 * Please do not include big functions here.  
 */



/*
 * pegasus wrapper on realloc functions and should prefer 
 * over the native realloc as it takes care of failure situation
 * It frees old pointer which hold the allocated memory and hence 
 * prevent leak and throws bad_alloc exception.
*/
inline void* peg_realloc(void *oldPtr, size_t newSize)
{
    void *newPtr = NULL;
    if ( (newPtr = ::realloc( oldPtr, newSize) ) == NULL) 
    {
        free( oldPtr);
        throw PEGASUS_STD(bad_alloc)();
    }
    return newPtr;
}

#endif //Pegasus_inl_h end