G'day Ali,

 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 
 AC> all the frees in an
 JB> exitfunction and use atexit() to register it.

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

Oh that's kinda smart! Then I regret why I didn't make my own memory
function, so I easyly could change that sort of things.. Just bad luck..

Thanks for your reply :-) Just found the man page, quite interesting.

Regards,
Bo


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