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From: warner@weiss.cs.unc.edu (Byron Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Deleting linked lists.
Keywords: C,  C++.
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Date: 27 Mar 91 00:43:26 GMT
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I was wondering, is it safe to unallocate a singly linked list like this:

struct list *head; /* top of list */
struct list *ptr = head;
while (ptr){
	free(ptr);
	ptr = ptr->next;
}

I am not sure if I can assume that
the value of ptr will not be corrupted
after it is freed.

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Byron F. Warner					warner@cs.unc.edu
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Computer Sci Department
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