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Article #3557Re: De-Allocating Memory?
From: Simon Raybould
Date: Wed, 09 May 1990 12:10
Date: Wed, 09 May 1990 12:10
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!sie 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> Organization: BT Fulcrum, Birmingham, England Lines: 35 Disclaimer: Organisation given for identification purposes only