free() question

From: Aaron Walker (ka0ttic_at_REMOVETHIScfl.rr.com)
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:44:15 GMT

I apologize if this is a stupid question. I was just curious... is
there any reason why free() doesn't set the pointer (that was passed to
it) to NULL after giving the memory back to the heap? I decided to
write a wrapper for free() to do just that, and I wondered why free()
itself didn't do it.

Aaron 

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