Release everything you allocate. It doesn''t matter whether the OS cleans up at the end or not - you''re essentially losing a valuable resource and eventually you may run out, causing your program, other programs, or even your OS to crash.

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Actually, I believe in Windows 9X, if you leak memory, it can''t be accessed by the OS until you restart.

I think....