Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: free (NULL);
Message-ID: <1990May8.154456.26253@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1194@wet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8 May 90 15:44:56 GMT

In article <1194@wet.UUCP> noah@wet.UUCP (Noah Spurrier) writes:
>Will angry things happen if I try to free(NULL) ?

On many current systems, yes.  ANSI C guarantees that you can free a
null pointer, but many existing implementations will malfunction if
handed one.
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