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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 19:37:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortel.ca>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?)
Message-ID:  <199709211737.TAA20833@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: "Andrew Atrens"'s message of 18 Sep 1997 17:59 EDT
References:  <199709182202.PAA10664@hub.freebsd.org>

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[Andrew Atrens]
> >From what I can tell Poul your free() actually gives the memory back to the
> OS ( at least some of the time ).

If this is correct, it breaks ANSI C behaviour.  (Yes, I hate this
ANSI C requirement as much as the next guy - but still thought I
should inform about it.)

Eivind.



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