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 14:40:36 -0500
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Marcus wrote:

> Is it impossible to know if the function have been called this way
> func ("...");
> or
> char* a = malloc(10);
> func (a);
> ?
> Do you understand what I mean? And what is YAMD?

    In general, I believe a good policy is:
A library (or class, etc) shouldn't free memory it didn't allocate.

I don't think your 'func' function should be free'ing any memory it doesn't
allocate itself.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)