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UWA week 43 (2nd semester, study break) ↓

final exam Freeing dirent and stat structs (both)

6:56pm Wed 25th Oct, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> This might be a straightforward answer here but for dirent and stat structs, do you have to clear the structs at the end? We don't malloc or calloc it but I assume that it has memory, so I would assume that we have to free these structs at the end?

You are confusing terms. In this context, 'free'ing memory is the activity of deallocating memory previously allocated with malloc(). If you didn't malloc it (or realloc it, or strdup it...) then you don't free it. Freeing memory involves far more than clearing it.