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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Life after free?
Keywords: free malloc
Message-ID: <11409@alice.att.com>
Date: 30 Sep 90 14:22:39 GMT
References: <quan.654410256@sol> <5620@stpstn.UUCP>
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In article <5620@stpstn.UUCP>, lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman) writes:

> Not only is it sensible, the semantics of free require it.  The item
> freed is guaranteed to be valid until the next call to malloc,
> realloc, ...

This statement was true ten years ago, but is false today.

You can find more detail in `C Traps and Pitfalls,' page 95.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com