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From: quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Life after free?
Summary: Is it sensible to return a pointer to something that has been freed?
Keywords: free malloc
Message-ID: <quan.654410256@sol>
Date: 27 Sep 90 04:37:36 GMT
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char *funny(ch)
char ch;
{
  char *tmp;
  int i;
  
  tmp = (char *) malloc(100);
  for (i=0; i<=99 ; i++) *(tmp+i) = ch;
  free(tmp);
  return tmp;
}

Any comments on free-ing tmp before it is return-ed?

Stephen Quan (quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au)
University of Tasmania.