Thread: Deallocating from the heap

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    Deallocating from the heap

    OK I know this is bad practice, but if you never free something that was malloc'd in a program, ran out of heap space (memory leak obviously), then killed the program, what exactly happens to that malloc'd memory that never got freed during the duration of the program? Nothing? Or does it get deallocated magically somehow?

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    Any modern OS will set all memory pages used by your application to "free" again.
    Stick close to your desks and never program a thing,
    And you all may sit in the standards commitee!

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