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