{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25","id":123843003,"number":25,"title":"`free` does not seem to free actual memory.","user":{"login":"trichner","id":4774528,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4774528?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner","html_url":"https://github.com/trichner","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/trichner/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-12-25T01:22:58Z","updated_at":"2015-12-25T12:05:31Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Consider following snippet:\r\n\r\n```\r\nk := new(int64)\r\n\r\n*k = 77\r\nfree(k)\r\n// should nope the f* out\r\n*k = 88 \r\nl := *k\r\nprintf(\"k: %d, %d\\n\",k,l)\r\n```\r\nResult:\r\nprintf works just fine, will print `\"k: 1323433, 88\"`\r\n\r\nExpected:\r\nIt should panic, crash or whatever, but not live happily ever after."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fabianschuiki/low/issues/comments/167225653","html_url":"https://github.com/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25#issuecomment-167225653","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fabianschuiki/low/issues/25","id":167225653,"user":{"login":"fabianschuiki","id":342324,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/342324?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki","html_url":"https://github.com/fabianschuiki","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fabianschuiki/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-25T12:05:31Z","updated_at":"2015-12-25T12:05:31Z","body":"This would only crash if the memory was allocated in a separate page, and freeing that memory would release the page. Memory protection usually operates on page granularity."}}