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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: effect of free()
Message-ID: <10973@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Sep 89 20:11:18 GMT
References: <319@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU> <3756@buengc.BU.EDU> <1989Aug17.005548.745@twwells.com> <16022@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <248@seti.inria.fr> <1010@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1010@m3.mfci.UUCP> karzes@mfci.UUCP (Tom Karzes) writes:
>Nonsense.  There are no indirect or indexed references in the code above,
>hence no opportunities for invalid address traps.  Period.

Loading an unmapped address descriptor into an address register may
cause an exception on some reasonable architectures.  Exclamation point.