From: "Scott Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

smiller> I am getting core dumps in the bn library when running under
smiller> purify.  This happens when running bntest as well as in my
smiller> application, which both work fine when not running under purify.
[...]
smiller> Am I doing something wrong?

I recall something silly about free(NULL).  How about you try purify
on the following program:

----------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

main()
{
        free(NULL);
}
----------------------

Note that according to POSIX (IIRC), free(NULL) is perfectly OK.

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