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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Pat Lashley wrote:
> No, our implementation is NOT legal.  We always return the SAME value.  To 
> be legal, we should not return that value again unless it has been 
> free()-ed.

It is legal due to brain damaged definition of implementation defined
behaviour, but it violates the spirit of the standard :-)

Joerg