Should I free allocated memory on abnormal termination?

Question

My program (a text-mode web browser) is dynamically allocating memory.

I do free unneeded blocks during runtime, of course. And I do free everything before normal te

Answer 1

No, unless your program always terminates abnormally. :) Anyway, the OS does a fine job freeing it up. In fact many lazy programmers don't even bother freeing things up with normal termination - but this makes detecting other memory leaks difficult (the ones that are a real problem).