Re: value of dangling pointer

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:

> You have to remember that the function free() cannot modify the value
> of its argument (nm->name) since it's only passed by value.

Please see the recent "Defined?" thread on <news:comp.std.c>,
in particular <news:3B3BE779.4FEA3647@wizard.net> and
<news:9hg8ir$jrp$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>.