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malloc free

malloc-free

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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malloc-free

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C-style explicit memory allocation and deallocation. malloc() requests a block of memory from the heap and free() returns it. The programmer is fully responsible for matching every allocation with a deallocation, and for not using memory after freeing it.

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