C can't do provenance
C can't do provenance
Posted Sep 29, 2024 21:59 UTC (Sun) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: C can't do provenance by foom
Parent article: Linus and Dirk on succession, Rust, and more
Then someone needs to correct https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/memory/free, which says the following:
> The behavior is undefined if after free() returns, an access is made through the pointer ptr (unless another allocation function happened to result in a pointer value equal to ptr).
