Life after free?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <quan.654410256 at sol> quan at sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes:
>  free(tmp);
>  return tmp;
>}
>
>Any comments on free-ing tmp before it is return-ed?

Yes:  don't do it.  On some implementations in some circumstances, this
will accidentally work.  It's not dependable.
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