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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:14:54 -0700
From: peter <pe...@nospam.calweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Help -- segmentation fault
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E. Gibbons wrote:
> In article <3D5D6338.4060...@nospam.calweb.com>,
> peter  <pe...@nospam.calweb.com> wrote:
> 
>>Uninitialized pointers also give simular results, though may produce hard
>>to trace data corruption.  I've also seen this message when freeing NULL,
>>though that would be library dependent.
> 
> 
> Hopefully, the only dependency there would come up if the library does
> not claim to be a conforming standard C library: free(NULL) should be
> perfectly alright in ANSI C, a harmless no-op.  Assuming the right 
> #includes, etc., of course.
> 
> --Ben
> 

Memory burp, realloc NULL.  Saw it using Cygwin.