Re: free() question

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From: Walter Bright
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 17:33

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In article <8822@star.cs.vu.nl> tamboer@cs.vu.nl (Tamboer Erik) writes:
/Is it safe to free() a block of memory that has already been free()d?

No. On many implementations, this will cause your program to crash.

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