Why is there no reallocation functionality in C++ allocators?

Question

In C the standard memory handling functions are malloc(), realloc() and free(). However, C++ stdlib allocators only parallel two of t

Answer 1

I guess this is one of the things where god went wrong, but I was just too lazy to write to the standards committee.

There should have been a realloc for array allocations:

p = renew(p) [128];

or something like that.