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379: Sidetrip

Later, in the hardcopy version of this book, you learn about free, a function that does the opposite of malloc: Instead of allocating a chunk of memory from the free store for an object, free returns the memory allocated to an object to the free store. You will see that you need to use free whenever you write a program that repeatedly reassigns one or more pointers to objects created at run time using malloc.