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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: how do you know 'free' freed?
Keywords: free, malloc, memory, allocation
Message-ID: <11313@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Oct 89 14:45:37 GMT
References: <5521@hacgate.UUCP> <11275@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1175@svx.SV.DG.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1175@svx.SV.DG.COM> gary@svx.SV.DG.COM () writes:
>The correct answer is "malloc/free is somewhat broken in Sunos 4.0.1-3".
>This has been mentioned before, in a Feb. Sun Spots article - here it is...

That sounds more like a "buddy system" allocator working normally.