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Re: Duplication of malloc() definit

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From: darcy
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 10:24
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jmp@moscom.UUCP (Joe Palumbos) writes:
>Can someone tell me why the memmory allocation routines are
>defined in both malloc.h and in stdlib.h?  (i.e.: malloc(),

Because some older compilers used malloc.h and so for compatibility with
programs which use it malloc.h is included.  ANSI puts these functions
in stdlib.h and this is the right header to use.

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Date: 18 Jul 92 04:24 MDT
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