Question: windows-NT/config.h Change #define realloc rpl_realloc

[Conrad T. Pino]

Hi All,

Being new to the project and coming from a Windoz background,
I've been dabbling with building CVS with Visual C++ (VC) 6.0
on the feature branch using the latest cvs.cvshome.org:/cvs
*.dsp files.  I've been looking at the warnings generated in
the compile which led to questions about recent changes made
in the feature branch.

I noticed "windows-NT/config.h" and it's precursors were updated
to add "#define realloc rpl_realloc" which might be the root of a
warning message I'm studying.

Before coming to a conclusion about the warning, I'd like to get
a better understanding of the reasons the change was made.  Can
anyone shed some light here for me?

TIA,

Conrad Pino