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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice 5.04 problem with free()
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.062445.1759@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 89 06:24:45 GMT
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In article <36769@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) writes:
<Does free() return a value?  It used to, in 5.02.  I just installed 5.04, and
<attempted to recompile some things, and got errors when checking free() to see
<if it returns a fail code.

My copy of the dpANS C standard and of K&R 2 both show free as being
void. The 5.02 docs show free as being an int, with an error if the
block wasn't freed.

I suspect that someone at Lattice (or a customer) noticed this, so the
corrected it in the 5.04 release.

	<mike
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