From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: quick malloc question
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 17:35:14 -0800
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Cristovao Braga wrote:

> I was wondering: if I allocate some memory with malloc () or an
> equivalent
> function and then quit the program without calling free (), will this
> memory be freed automatically?

Yes.  All memory allocated by a program is released on exit.

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