From 2b3a33160271056e2148ea59f7aa6f9ebabdeecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Celine Mercier <celine.mercier@metabarcoding.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:25:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Changed the behaviour if trying to realloc a memory chunk of
 size 0 to be consistent across systems (an error would be generated on Ubuntu
 when no primers found)

---
 src/libecoPCR/ecoMalloc.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libecoPCR/ecoMalloc.c b/src/libecoPCR/ecoMalloc.c
index 5796d7e..c34f97c 100644
--- a/src/libecoPCR/ecoMalloc.c
+++ b/src/libecoPCR/ecoMalloc.c
@@ -54,8 +54,14 @@ void   *eco_realloc(void *chunk,
 {
 	void *newchunk;
 
-	newchunk = realloc(chunk,newsize);
+	if (newsize == 0)
+	{
+		if (chunk)
+			free(chunk);
+		return NULL;
+	}
 
+	newchunk = realloc(chunk,newsize);
 
 	if (!newchunk)
            {