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From: jim@ghs.com (Jim Gleason)
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Subject: Re: Unchecked_Deallocation and Constraint_Error
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> You cannot expect that a Constraint_Error exception is raised in this
> case, unless your compiler documentation guarantees this.

LRM 13.11.2(7) states that the value of the variable after Free is null.
This, combined with 4.1(13), implies that a Constraint_Error SHOULD be
raised.  I would contact your compiler vendor.  A conforming implementation
should raise a Constraint_Error by default in this instance.