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

On abnormal termination you want to do as little processing as possible. Minimizing tinkering with the aborting process will mean you can get to as close to the reason for the abort as possible and any further processing can be seen as "contaminating" the process thus making it more difficult to debug.