While I do not agree, I understand.

Irrespective of the OS's handling of allocated memory on exit, I
consider it best practice to free all allocated memory at each and every
program exit point. Call me pedantic, but there it is.

Cheers-- I appreciate your reviews and feedback

On 10/22/2014 05:17 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> 
> free(p) before exit(0) is really useless, the kernel will clean
> up everything.
>