From:	"Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: About memory allocation
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:15:53 +0100
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OmniMeta wrote in message ...
>My question is :
>if i do this :
>
>int *p;
>int main()
>{
>    p = new int;
>    return 0;
>}
>
>Here I didn't use the delete operator to free p
>Did p will be automaticaly deleted with the end of the program, or did p
>will stay in memory until i reboot ?


p will be free'd by the OS. Although it is good practice to free up all
dynamic memory yourself just in case the OS doesn't do it properly.

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