From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: cfree or free
Date: 27 Jun 2000 14:04:24 -0700
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Uwe Sydow <sydow AT uni-bremen DOT de> writes:

> Hi,
> whats the difference between cfree and free? 
> (besides ANSI or POSIX compatibility)

Traditionally cfree was used to free blocks returned by calloc; it
used a different algorithm than malloc/free.  These days they are the
same, or cfree may not even exist at all.

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Nate Eldredge
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