Re: Newbie question on malloc()

[Luciano Moreira - igLnx <lucianolnx@ig.com.br>]

My suggests (I expect that it's commom):

If you are making a app for your personal brief use (like a brief tool), 
OK !!
    You can leave OS to control your auto-"freed" memory.
else
    You need to free your allocated memory by yorself (either by itself 
<---- your app).

Luciano.
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- Try to use "free()" or "delete".
- app = (your) application/software.



Micha Feigin wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:48:07PM +0900, Wen Guangcheng wrote:
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>>Hello Gurus,
>>I have made a daemon in which dynamic memory is gotten
>>by malloc(). Does the memory get free automatically without
>>free() by the deamon  when the daemon process is killed?
>>Thanks in advance.
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>It does, but in general its not in good practice to count on process
>exit for freeing memory (a good way to get memory leaks).
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>>--Wen
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