Memory Leaks
Well-behaved programs do the following:
- allocate a new object via
malloc()
- use the object for as long as needed
-
free() the object when no longer needed
A program which does not free() each object before
the last reference to it is lost contains a memory leak.
Such programs may eventually exhaust available heapspace.
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