Re: Catching free memory violations

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From: Deven T. Corzine
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 06:15

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On 1 Aug 89 18:48:04 GMT,
utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) said:

Todd> I don't assume it is safe.  In fact I will gladly take steps to
Todd> detect such usage and purge that software from my disks.  What
Todd> do you think will happen to the above program when an MMU is
Todd> running?  No, if you want to mung around with memory, don't free
Todd> it first.

It's certainly best not to assume it's safe, but I wouldn't want to
break programs unnecessarily.  (as a general rule)

Deven
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