From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: quick malloc question
Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 1997 23:10:37 -0800
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

> Yes.  It's automatically freed by the program's exit code.  There are
> some purists who say you should free it anyway - I'm ambivalent on the
> issue.  :)

Yes, it's guaranteed that allocated memory will be freed upon program exit.

I only explicitly free allocated memory before exit (or in destructors or
what have you in C++) because 1. I consider it good style (but again, it's
a purist issue), and 2. if you change the program into a library or some
other context where it isn't necessarily operating in its own little world,
then you'll have to put it in at some point.

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