Does malloc() reuse addresses?

Hi all,

my question is:

if i allocate some memory with malloc() and later free it (using
free()), is there a possibility that a consequent malloc() will
allocate memort at the same starting address and will return the same
pointer as the previous malloc(). I would like to have confirmation on
whether this is practically a concern when pointers are used to
uniquely identify data structure instances - like in this example:

int isInstanceValid(myStrict* inst)
{
int i;
for (i=0; i<instCount; ++i)
if (instances[i] == inst)
return 1;

return 0;
}

In this example, if an instance is freed, and a pointer to it becomes
non-valid, and later a new structure is allocated in the list, the
function will return that the pointer is valid, although it is actually
not the instance that was originally referred.

.

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