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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:51:28 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>,
        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?)
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On Sun, Sep 21, 1997 at 04:50:38PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > It doesn't.  However, it has a formulation that IMHO is too
> > restrictive - that free() 'makes the memory available for further use
> > by the program' (from memory).  Thus, an implementation of
> 
> Bizarre, are you sure?  That's exactly 180 degrees counter to what
> I've always learned about storage allocators: If you count on free()
> to not corrupt the data you pass to it, you deserve to lose and lose
> big.

My typo.  I mean 'further allocation'.

Eivind.