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Managing the lifetimes of garbage-collected objects [closed]

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Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 2 months ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question last month and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were … Read more

Why is the use of alloca() not considered good practice?

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alloca() allocates memory on the stack rather than on the heap, as in the case of malloc(). So, when I return from the routine the memory is freed. So, actually this solves my problem of freeing up dynamically allocated memory. Freeing of memory allocated through malloc() is a major headache and if somehow missed leads … Read more