the foreign c-string type: what animal is that?

Hi,

> > (malloc 'c-string "abc") does in fact two allocations:
> > 1. one for the pointer, since char* IS a pointer
> > 2. one for the buffer contents
> 
> True.

That's why I have a problem with free(). Should it deallocate both? Only the pointer? Does the pointer point to valid memory?

Regards,
	Jorg Hohle.