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Re: Memory allocation under Linux

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Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:19:45 -0800

Shane Wegner <shane@cm.nu> writes:
> In the following function, does s free itself?

As others have pointed out, memory allocated with malloc is not
self-freeing and must be freed explicitly. I didn't notice anyone
mention alloca(), however, which allocates memory on the stack, and is
thus self-freeing when the function returns.

Brian.

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