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From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: why is free() a void?
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Date: 5 Nov 90 06:08:55 GMT
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In article <130@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>Thus, it became apparent that the abort should be moved inside of free().
>That's what the Zortech free function does now, if it detects a corrupted
>heap it prints the message:
>	"Heap is corrupted"
>and immediately terminates the program. free() now returns a void.

Good for you.  I hope you die with abort() or equivalent rather than exit()
(even if the distinction is minor under DOS); then you can answer the diehards
by telling them to trap SIGABRT.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint