effect of free()

[Charles Marslett]

In article <10988 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <1465 at levels.sait.edu.au> CCDN at levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes:
> >a machine that *did* trap in such a case, would be decidedly unfriendly.
> 
> while letting you continue to play with pointers that point absolutely
> nowhere would be friendly??

Most assuredly yes -- I have often kept lists of freed pointers (to identify
which were "not really" pointers for example), and the necessity of doing
a large number of (error prone) operations to avoid traps laid by the
computer makers and compiler standards writers does make me decidedly
unfriendly.  So I must assume that the inciting action was also unfriendly
;^).

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