Re: [Dev-C++] malloc and free

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Siva Chandra wrote:
> firstly, thanx Daniel and Oroszi
"Balázs" - that's my firstname, written at second place (we Hungarians 
are "crazy" people - or maybe everyone else is, except us? :D

> for the descriptive
> replyies. I have always thought free(ptr) would put
> ptr to NULL.

I think you cannot even assume that anywhere. The docs of free() only 
tell you, that the memory is freed. However, maybe it's a documentation 
"bug", it doesn't state explicitly that free() is NOT GUARANTEED to put 
NULL to the deallocated memory (probably because of performance reasons).

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Greetings,
   Balázs