[geeks] Win32 malloc/free internals, and a unix question.
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Aug 8 19:01:13 CDT 2002
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 07:20:28PM -0400, Tom Borton wrote:
> <pendantic>
> As a general rule, dynamically allocated storage should always be
> de-allocated within the same scope that it was allocated.
> </pendantic>
> Sorry, I've just finished arguing with a programmer who doesn't
> understand that rule, even when the debugger reports unreleased
> memory. Grrr...
Note, this is not something that they teach at my school in the CS
department, which is an accredited CS program. They never even teach
debugger usage.
--
Joshua D. Boyd
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