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To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?)
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Eivind Eklund writes:
> [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.

Huh?  I didn't realize ANSI mandated OS support.  Can you quote chapter
and verse that says this?


Nate