Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Life after free?
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.165501.1769@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <quan.654410256@sol>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 16:55:01 GMT

In article <quan.654410256@sol> quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes:
>  free(tmp);
>  return tmp;
>}
>
>Any comments on free-ing tmp before it is return-ed?

Yes:  don't do it.  On some implementations in some circumstances, this
will accidentally work.  It's not dependable.
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