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Release heap memory when it goes out of scope in C
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// gcc a.c | |
#include <stdio.h> | |
#include <stdlib.h> | |
#include <string.h> | |
void clean_name(char **name) { | |
printf("clean clean!"); | |
free(*name); | |
} | |
void show(char *name) { | |
printf("hello %s\n", name); | |
} | |
void action() { | |
char *name __attribute__((cleanup (clean_name))) = malloc(sizeof(char) * 20); | |
strcpy(name, "test test"); | |
show(name); | |
} | |
int main() { | |
action(); | |
} |
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valgrind --tool=memcheck ./a.out | |
==575637== Memcheck, a memory error detector | |
==575637== Copyright (C) 2002-2022, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. | |
==575637== Using Valgrind-3.22.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info | |
==575637== Command: ./a.out | |
==575637== | |
hello mort | |
clean clean!==575637== | |
==575637== HEAP SUMMARY: | |
==575637== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks | |
==575637== total heap usage: 2 allocs, 2 frees, 1,044 bytes allocated | |
==575637== | |
==575637== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible | |
==575637== | |
==575637== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s | |
==575637== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) |
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valgrind --tool=memcheck ./a.out | |
==574035== Memcheck, a memory error detector | |
==574035== Copyright (C) 2002-2022, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. | |
==574035== Using Valgrind-3.22.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info | |
==574035== Command: ./a.out | |
==574035== | |
hello mort | |
clean clean!==574035== | |
==574035== HEAP SUMMARY: | |
==574035== in use at exit: 20 bytes in 1 blocks | |
==574035== total heap usage: 2 allocs, 1 frees, 1,044 bytes allocated | |
==574035== | |
==574035== LEAK SUMMARY: | |
==574035== definitely lost: 20 bytes in 1 blocks | |
==574035== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks | |
==574035== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks | |
==574035== still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks | |
==574035== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks | |
==574035== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory | |
==574035== | |
==574035== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s | |
==574035== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) |
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