Hello Neil!

Replying to a message of Neil Heller to Jasen Betts:

 NH>> The question with which I am interested is what happens to the
 NH>> memory used by the array after foo* goes out of scope?

 JB>> the array of pointers is discarded like any mundane local variable,
 JB>> the targets of the pointers still exist because they are string the
 JB>> constants.

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

No.  You didn't malloc/strdup/call any function to allocate the memory, so
neither should you (or can you!) free/call any function to de-allocate the
memory.  The reverse, however, does not always hold.  Just because you
called a function to get a pointer to memory does not mean you need to call
a function to release that pointer - the original function may have
returned a pointer to a static variable.

Darin

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