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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortel.ca>
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In-reply-to: "Andrew Atrens"'s message of 18 Sep 1997 17:59 EDT
Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?)
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[Andrew Atrens]
> >From what I can tell Poul your free() actually gives the memory back to the
> OS ( at least some of the time ).

If this is correct, it breaks ANSI C behaviour.  (Yes, I hate this
ANSI C requirement as much as the next guy - but still thought I
should inform about it.)

Eivind.