🚀 go-pugleaf

On 30 Jul 89 21:27:01 GMT,
rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) said:

Robin> In article <3985@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file
Robin> owner) writes:
porkka> 		Forbid();
porkka> 		FreeMem(x,len);
porkka> 		playsomemore(x);
porkka> 		Permit();

porkka> Now if you go zeroing things out at the FreeMem call, you can
porkka> potentially screw somebody up.

Robin> FreeMem is just that. It gives the memory _back_ to the system
Robin> which is then free to tag and use the memory anyway it wants
Robin> to. Using free'd memory is a bad habit. Get rid of it. It does
Robin> not work. Forbid() doesn't help.

And yet, it IS assumed to be safe, if you're forbidden.  (It *may*
even be (semi) officially sanctioned.  But I wouldn't count on it.)
Regardless, people *expect* this to work, and it would help not to
break it without needing to.

Deven
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