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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Stack Direction War Stories
Message-ID: <9920@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 02:31:32 GMT
References: <205@ksr.UUCP> <1962@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1962@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
(Greg Noel) writes:
>How about vi?  ... the routine to free memory attempted to see
>if the address of the item to be freed was above or below one of
>its parameters and only called free() if the address was lower.

This was in csh, not vi.  `free' began with

	free(p)
		char *p;
	{

		if (p > (char *)&p)
			return;
		...

The 4.3 csh code is different.
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