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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: effect of free()
Message-ID: <1989Sep21.202156.4296@twwells.com>
Date: 21 Sep 89 20:21:56 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> <246@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <21952@cup.portal.com> <10983@smoke.BRL.MIL> <591@augean.OZ>
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In article <591@augean.OZ>  writes:
: It violates the law of least surprises to have variables suddenly made
: inaccessable by being a call by value argument to a function.

There is no such thing as "the law of least surprise". What is
surprising to one person is unarguable common sense to another.

I find it surprising that some fools think that the pointer must have
any kind of validity after it is freed. Once freed it's GONE, folks.

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