Realloc on NULL-valued (or undefined) pointer

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Is there any danger in allocating memory with realloc using the
initially NULL-valued ptr

None

7.22.3.5

If ptr is a null pointer, the realloc function behaves like the malloc
function for the specified size.

For the second part:

int* ptr; // no value given to ptr

would it be a problem to call realloc using ptr?

If you’re using uninitialized pointers then that is a very serious problem indeed since you can’t predict what their value will be. The function realloc only works correctly for NULL or values obtained from malloc / realloc.

Otherwise, if ptr does not match a pointer earlier returned by a
memory management function […] the behavior is undefined

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