free() on stack memory

Question

I\'m supporting some c code on Solaris, and I\'ve seen something weird at least I think it is:

char new_login[64];
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strcpy(new_login, (char *)login);
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Answer 1

Definitely a bug. free() MUST ONLY be used for heap alloc'd memory, unless it's redefined to do something completely different, which I doubt to be the case.