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Shane Wegner (shane@cm.nu)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:31:12 -0800 (PST)

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Hi,

I have a few questions with Memory allocation under Linux and am hoping
someone here has some experience with it. In particular malloc(2) and
free(2) questions. In the following function, does s free itself?

int test(void) {
char *s;
s = malloc(1024);
return 0;
}

The reason I ask this is I am wondering if I have to free all my variables
whenever I return out of a function. For example, when I use char *strstr
in a function, is it necessary to free the result inorder to prevent a
memory leak?

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