effect of free()

[T. William Wells]

In article <591 at augean.OZ>  writes:
: It violates the law of least surprises to have variables suddenly made
: inaccessable by being a call by value argument to a function.

There is no such thing as "the law of least surprise". What is
surprising to one person is unarguable common sense to another.

I find it surprising that some fools think that the pointer must have
any kind of validity after it is freed. Once freed it's GONE, folks.

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