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Old 12-05-2009
Trouble freeing memory after ctrl+D
Hello,

I am trying to free memory allocation after EOF from keyboard is detected (ctrl+D) in a C program. I've written a small program to replicate my problem:

Code:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

   char *line;
   line = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*(512));

   line = fgets(line, 512, stdin);

   if (feof(stdin)) {  /* Detects ctrl+D */
      free(line);      /* Attempts to free line before return */
      return(EXIT_SUCCESS);
   }

   return(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

When I run this under valgrind with --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes it is saying the line is not freed when I terminate with ctrl+D. What am I doing wrong here?
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Old 12-05-2009
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