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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?)
To: gram@cdsec.com (Graham Wheeler)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:14:40 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, gram@gram.cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199709181722.TAA00606@cdsec.com> from "Graham Wheeler" at Sep 18, 97 07:22:10 pm
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> Well, then maybe you'll find the code below useful. It isn't Purify, but
> then it doesn't cost anything near the price 8-).  I'd use it
> myself now, except that these days I write everything in C++. Mostly I'm
> happy about that, but not right now...

You can replace you "new" and "delete" functions; you knew that, right?


[ ... ]

> --------- gwtest.c ------------------------------------------------------

[ ... ]

> void doubleFreeTest(void)
> {
>     heap_ptr p = malloc(10);
>     free(p);
>     free(p);
> }

How about:

	heap_ptr p = malloc( 20);
	heap_ptr q, r;
	free(p);
	q = malloc(10)
	r = malloc( 10);
	free(p);

? 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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