From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Q: How to check validity of a pointer?
Date: 14 Jan 1998 12:19:00 GMT
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There is one situation where realloc and friends could either crash, or
return a bogus non-NULL pointer; and that is a corrupt arena resulting
from an earlier bad pointer write.

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