From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: passing arg 1 of 'free' ....
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:03:15 -0700
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Elliott Oti wrote:

> const char *myptr; // means I am not going to alter myptr => myptr = 
>                    // const
> 
> free(myptr); // means please release the memory pointed to by myptr
>              // and make myptr = NULL;

It doesn't nullify the pointer, but yes, this is his problem.

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