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| From | Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@earthlink.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Should you free your pointers? |
| Date | 2011-06-24 19:04 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <iu3570$bpf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <iu2sov$3dv$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
On 6/24/2011 4:41 PM, Billy Mays wrote: > In the case where you know that your program will be terminating after > it is done using the pointers, should you even bother freeing the space up? You should always free any space you have allocated. There is no guarantee that the OS will do it for you. Even if the OS you are currently using claims it will do so, relying on such behavior makes your code non-portable and there is no warrant in the C standard for expecting otherwise (since the C standard can hardly decree such this for the OS). > Example: No example is needed.
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