free behavior (was: Re: Out-of-bounds pointers)
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Oct 11 03:04:56 AEST 1989
In article <17119 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>Doesn't free() insure the pointer remains valid until the next
>call to malloc()...
No. Some Unix implementations guaranteed this; ANSI C does not.
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