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From: pc@cs.keele.ac.uk (Phil Cornes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FREE
Message-ID: <1296@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 13:18:35 GMT
References: <2714@stl.stc.co.uk>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <2714@stl.stc.co.uk>, by dsr@stl.stc.co.uk (David Riches):
> In most cases only the pointer to the space is known but will the
> following free up all the space :-
>   #define NE_ARR_FREE(x)     { free((char *) sizeof(x)); x = 0; }
> 

No this just won't work - you can only pass a pointer returned by malloc()
into a call to free()....



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