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From: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain - VOS hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Life after free?
Summary: Turbo C modifies free()ed memory immediately
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.172710.5667@calvin.spp.cornell.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 90 17:27:10 GMT
References: <quan.654410256@sol> <9010021433.AA20306@bisco.kodak.COM>
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics
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Msdos programmers should be aware that Turbo-C free() modifies the memory
immediately.  This bit me once in porting from unix code that assumed "life
after free"

-- 
Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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