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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:50:14 -0600
From:      seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. 
Message-ID:  <200102261950.f1QJoE612168@guild.plethora.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:32:56 %2B0900." <3A9AA158.61669F11@newsguy.com> 

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In message <3A9AA158.61669F11@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>Anyway, these are two very different situations, and comparing them is
>silly.

They are situations in which an application can be killed and has no way
to detect that it is about to do something wrong, and in which there *was*
a correct way to notify the application of impending doom.

Once we accept the argument "the C standard doesn't say this doesn't cause
a segmentation fault", we can apply it to everything.

-s

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