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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.
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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.