Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!cgh!amanue!oglvee!norm From: norm@oglvee.UUCP (Norman Joseph) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Life after free? Keywords: free malloc Message-ID: <607@oglvee.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 90 13:29:28 GMT References: <606@oglvee.UUCP> <60726@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Oglevee Computer Systems, Connellsville, Pa Lines: 26 In <60726@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bomgard@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Tim Bomgardner) writes: >In article <606@oglvee.UUCP> norm@oglvee.UUCP (Norman Joseph) writes: >}In quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes: >} >}>Any comments on free-ing tmp before it is return-ed? >} >}No, but I -do- have a comment on returning tmp at all. >}[mindless babbling mercifully deleted] >I doubt that anyone on the net is better than I am at missing the obvious, >especially when it's right in front of my face, but this doesn't make much >sense to me. Well, now you can be sure that there is at least -one- person here better than you in that regard. :-) It's a humbling experience to step into the limelight of the Net only to fall flat on your face. I don't know where my head was at when I wrote that (that's the last time I'll skip my Thorazine!) So now I'll beg the Net's pardon, promise not to take any more Stupid Pills before reading news and promise to -read- every posting 42 times before hitting "f", and then hit "n" instead. -- Norm Joseph - (amanue!oglvee!norm) cgh!amanue!oglvee!norm@dsi.com, or Oglevee Computer Systems, Inc. ditka!oglvee!norm@daver.bungi.com ---<*>--- "Shucking Usenet oysters in pursuit of a pearl." -- Bill Kennedy