sigsegv in pick

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From: Ronald S H Khoo
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 18:03

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For some reason, pick() seems to call free with an arg of -1
(the err value) which INTERNAL MALLOC doesn't seem to know what to
do with, and coredumps on me.  I changed the free() in malloc.c
to check for (char *)-1.

Is there an official fix?  Thanks.
-- 
Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)

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