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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Life after free?
Keywords: free malloc
Message-ID: <732@demott.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 18:21:51 GMT
References: <8058@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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In article <8058@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
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>In article <623@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>>    It should be noted that in secure systems, free() will clear the memory.
>
>Uhm... says *who*?
>
>>96.37% of all statistics are made up.
>
>And some facts, as well, it would appear.

    I speak from personal experience, from systems I have developed and
worked on.  Note that I do not contend that this is necessary for normal
operation in commercial systems, or even desirable.  I was merely pointing
out yet another way that using a free()'d pointer was a lose.


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