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Top Forums Programming Trouble freeing memory after ctrl+D Post 302377915 by oddworld on Saturday 5th of December 2009 08:38:44 PM
Old 12-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I'd make double-sure the program is really doing what you think it does. print a line and free the memory when ctrl-d is found.
This is exactly what I did to make sure the code reaches the free(line). If I change the if statement to something like:

Code:
if (feof(stdin)) {
   printf("CTRL+D pressed by user\n");
   free(line);
   return(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

The printf is printed, but the line isn't freed...
 

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