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- memory management - How does C free () work? - Stack Overflow
C compiles straight to machine code and without special debugging arrangements there are no sanity checks on loads and stores Now, if you try and access a free block, the behavior is undefined by the standard in order to not make unreasonable demands on library implementators There are various things that can go wrong:
- c - What does the free () function actually do? - Stack Overflow
The C standard does not require either changing or preserving memory after free() but it doesn't prohibit it either But you can't know, because accessing the memory after free() is undefined behavior
- How do I free memory in C? - Stack Overflow
When you call free() the memory block is placed back in the free-store as a linked-list node that indicates its an available chunk of memory If you request more memory than what is located in the free-store, the libc-runtime will again request more memory from the OS up to the limit of the OS's ability to allocate memory for running processes
- c - What happens when you call free () with a pointer to the middle of . . .
When you call free on this pointer, the system will lookup 4 bytes backwards to know that it originally allocated 14 bytes so that it knows how much to free This system prevents you from providing the amount of data to free as an extra parameter to free itself Of course, other implementation of malloc free can choose other way to achieve this
- malloc - When should I use free () in C? - Stack Overflow
The code works as it is supposed to, though it never frees the memory allocated by malloc() I have tried to free memory in any place that I can, but no matter where I do it, it breaks the program
- C: How to free nodes in the linked list? - Stack Overflow
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- c - What does double free mean? - Stack Overflow
A double free in C, technically speaking, leads to undefined behavior This means that the program can behave completely arbitrarily and all bets are off about what happens
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