Hello Bo.

15 Oct 03 06:28, Jasen Betts wrote to you:

 JB> it's a good idea to free it at the end of the program, but most
 JB> platforms will free it for you if you leave it allocated.

 JB> one handy way to free global allocations is to put all the frees in an
 JB> exitfunction and use atexit() to register it.

If you are using GNU's C compiler, it comes with a function
named alloca() (declared in alloca.h) . When you use alloca()
instead of malloc() in a function, then the compiler automaticaly
free the memory for you when the function exits/returns.
It is very useful when dealing with big functions.

Best regards, Ali


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