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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:45:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:09:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-11-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:53:28 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> All my programs contain a routine called quit_cleanup(); it takes a
>>> single argument, which is either an error message or NULL.
>>> It frees all allocated memory, closes any open files, etc.
>>
>> But all that is unnecessary if your program is terminating anyway.
> 
> Perhaps, but I'm a belt-and-suspenders guy - I like to explicitly free
> everything come hell or high water.

That actually slows down program termination.