>> Second: I'm currently debugging a strange memory corruption problem
>> and
>> have just had a look at the gethostbyname2.c code:
>> 
>> I was wondering: why is it safe to do free(h) on the initial run when
>> *h has not been
>> 
>>        static struct hostent *h;
>>        size_t size = 63;
>>        struct hostent *res;
>>        int err;
>>        do {
>>                free(h);
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Pirmin

h is defined as having static storage, as such its initial
value is NULL. free(NULL) is valid.

- Shiz