Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: The free() thing and function names Message-ID: <11160@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 28 Sep 89 02:04:49 GMT References: <902@skye.ed.ac.uk> <11117@smoke.BRL.MIL> <946@skye.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <946@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes: >Now, you may regard this as a hack, but it's certainly a useful hack, >and it would be nice if there was a reliable way of doing it. It would be nice if nobody in the world were starving, but that too is beyond the scope of the C Standard. Your hack will work in some environments and not in others; that's just the way it is.