Life after free?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <6573.tnews at templar.actrix.co.nz> jbickers at templar.actrix.co.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> Quoted from - kaleb at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	):
> > Which OS is that on?  At the risk of exhibiting "small world" syndrome,
> > in UNIX, malloc and free work within the confines of the heap, which

>     The Amiga's Exec, for example.

In every implementation of malloc and free I know of on the Amiga, a free
does not return the pointer to the O/S. A FreeMem does, but that's not a
standard C routine. And I'm pretty sure a FreeMem doesn't scribble on the
data freed, nor does AllocMem guarantee an empty block.
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