Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] free(line)
Date: Thursday, 19 Mar 2020, 23:14:13

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > In example.c, why is free(line) required? Wasn't it mentioned in lecture
    > that free() should only be used when the memory was allocated through
    > malloc/realloc/calloc? These weren't used in example.c.

As state on the man page for getline (see "man
getline"):

  If *lineptr is set to NULL and *n is set 0 before the
  call, then getline() will allocate a buffer for
  storing the line.  This buffer should be freed by the
  user program even if getline() failed.

--Stan-