validity of free() on later pointer operations

[Stephen Clamage]

edward at runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Edward Birch) writes:
>I quote the manual here:
>	The argument to "free" is a pointer to a block previosly allocated
>	by "malloc"; after "free" is performed this space is made available
>	for further allocation, but its contents are left undisturbed.

I wonder which manual that is.  ANSI C makes no such guarantee.  See
section 4.10.3 of the standard.

As Mr Birch also pointed out, if you play games with malloc/free, don't
expect your whiz-bang code to run on another system.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve at taumet.com