Re: Freeing memory in #pragma exit

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From: kim sang woo
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 06:24

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William White (wcw@wolfe.net) wrote:
: 	Is it better to free all allocated memory from new & malloc()...  by freeing 
: it with a #pragma exit function, or a regular function just before exit() is 
: called?  Using the #pragma exit way, I've been getting some lockup in my 
: program... :(

   Stay away from pragma exit...   You are better off using atexit()
functions.  it's supported by ANSI.
   You are missing the poiont of dynamic allocation if you were to
allocate memory and never release it until program ends.  You are better
of using hard coded array.

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