Mem allocation and freeing
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Hi!
If I allocate let say 4Mb in the beginning of my program do I need to free it upon exit or does it get released automatically when the proccess dies?
/Erik
[edited by - NoClue on October 13, 2003 7:44:10 AM]
It is in "good taste" to free mem that You allocated. But yes system will free it. Or other... system should free it 
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Never assume the system does anything for you. On systems such as Windows 2000 or later, it will free the memory when the process dies, but older windows versions don''t. So it''s a bad habit of not cleaning up. Eventually, memory leaks can kill a machine and force it to reboot.
So, allocating means you have to deallocate. And if you don''t want to miss out any allocated memory, use a memory tracer.
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So, allocating means you have to deallocate. And if you don''t want to miss out any allocated memory, use a memory tracer.
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You can take my word for it that Windows 98 SE is very sloppy in cleaning up memory that programs leave behind.
Well I personally don''t think it''s a big deal. Pre-2000 versions of Windows pretty much have to be regularly rebooted anyway, so it''s not like much harm will come of it. They should upgrade anyway.
quote:Original post by andy_fish
They should upgrade anyway.
If you do your part, they shouldn''t have to upgrade. It''s not that hard to free allocated memory, so just do it. It''s not like you have to write a thousand lines of code to free memory.
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