From:	"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Prevent crash on free()
Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:34:13 -0500
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Marcus wrote:

> Hi!
> How can I test if a memory is permanently alloced with malloc? To prevent
> crash on free().
> Like:
> void safefree (void* mem)
> {
>   if(memory_is_malloc(mem))
>     free(mem);
> }
> Because the program crash if I use free careless.

So don't use free carelessly.

--
(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)

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