Re: Freeing memory in #pragma exit

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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 17:58

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In article <42hdl3$rkr@ratty.wolfe.net>, 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... :(

Don't call library functions in any #pragma exit registered functions.

As to freeing the memory, if you're program ends already there is really
no need to start freeing memory shortly before that.  Simply exiting the
program will free the memory afterward.

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