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Subject: Re: Free-ing memory: not springing leaks?
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> There is no mention in the man pages that it is "allocated",
> or that you should free it.

In fact, on my Sun box, the dlerror man page explicitly says that
the returned value may point to a static area.