NH> The targets of the pointers still exist ... but where?  Do I
NH> need to  worry about "free"ing or "delete"ing the memory?

DM> No.  You didn't malloc/strdup/call any function to allocate 
DM> the memory, so neither should you (or can you!) free/call 
DM> any function to de-allocate the memory.

Is there any chance of having a memory leak when using

char *foo "For whom the bell tolls";

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