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From: S.J.Raybould@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: De-Allocating Memory?
Keywords: Lattice 5.04?
Message-ID: <X-8#!|_@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
Date: 9 May 90 12:10:28 GMT
References: <12750@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <12750@wpi.wpi.edu> pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes:
>I think I need some quick tutoring as to how one deallocates memory:
>
>I'm doing an awful lot of mallocs to create a lot of linked lists...
>when I free them using
>Freeit(object)
>  struct obj *object;
>{
>	if (object->next != NULL)
>		Freeit(object->next);
>	free(object);
>}



You need a recursive routine to free the whole list, along the lines of

freelist(ptr)
struct listelement *ptr;
{
	if(ptr->Next)
		freelist(ptr->Next);	/* Recurse */
	if(ptr)
		free(ptr);
}



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