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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:50:38 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?) 
Message-ID:  <24205.874885838@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:55:06 %2B0200." <19970922005506.48602@bitbox.follo.net> 

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> It doesn't.  However, it has a formulation that IMHO is too
> restrictive - that free() 'makes the memory available for further use
> by the program' (from memory).  Thus, an implementation of

Bizarre, are you sure?  That's exactly 180 degrees counter to what
I've always learned about storage allocators: If you count on free()
to not corrupt the data you pass to it, you deserve to lose and lose
big.

					Jordan


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