The free() thing and function names

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <946 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>Now, you may regard this as a hack, but it's certainly a useful hack,
>and it would be nice if there was a reliable way of doing it.

It would be nice if nobody in the world were starving,
but that too is beyond the scope of the C Standard.

Your hack will work in some environments and not in others;
that's just the way it is.