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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: free and malloc
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 23:22:42 EDT
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> >Does anyone out there really use free?

YES. Some of us have to write programs that will run to completion in 64K, or
feel that cutting down the size of programs is a good idea. Yes, I free() every
pointer I malloc() as soon as I no longer need it.