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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Freeing a dynamically allocated array of structs within a struct in C
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
[...]
>                              For people who can count on POSIX support,
> can you give any reason to avoid it?
[...]

It's not defined by POSIX.  It's from 4.4BSD, and supported by glibc
(and also by newlib and musl) -- but not by Windows.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */