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- From: Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com>
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- Subject: Re: Q: mem allocation in function
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:39:09 -0800
- Organization: Alcyone Systems
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- Rainer Wartha wrote:
-
- > is it conforming to ANSI (allowed) to allocate in
- > a Function Memory for a Pointer (defined external)
- > and use it after returning from the function
- > (memory not freed, free shortly before exit)
-
- Sure, it's perfectly legal. Allocated memory is not scoped, so you can
- allocate it in one function, return, call another function, and use it there.
-
- Some consider it bad practice to do this indiscriminately, because then it
- becomes difficult to keep track of where memory is allocated.
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