Life after free?

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <5620 at stpstn.UUCP>, lerman at stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman) writes:

> Not only is it sensible, the semantics of free require it.  The item
> freed is guaranteed to be valid until the next call to malloc,
> realloc, ...

This statement was true ten years ago, but is false today.

You can find more detail in `C Traps and Pitfalls,' page 95.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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