how do you know 'free' freed?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <9762 at attctc.Dallas.TX.US> chasm at attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
>If so, it also sounds like an excellent reason to disallow "buddy system"
>allocators.

Yes, and therefore you should complain loudly to the vendor that foists
one off on you.

Many BSD-based UNIX systems have a malloc() like this.  I don't like it
either.  The place to fix it, however, in in the C library, not in the
application.