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  1. From: dhandly@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Dennis Handly)
  2. Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:04:45 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: Is it safe to free() mem alloc'd by xdr routines?
  4. Message-ID: <31480272@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
  5. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Cal Language Lab
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  7. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  8. References: <1992Nov5.081038.1639@codex.oz.au>
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  11. A similar problem happens on MPE/iX using SQL.  It turns that there were two
  12. mallocs in the application and the user was trying to free() space that was
  13. malloc() by the other copy.  Nasty things will happen...
  14.