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
JB> the constants.

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

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