Freeing memory from C

[Mike Parker]

On 12/3/2013 9:31 PM, John Colvin wrote:
>
> You should be fine to free in that way as long as you haven't done
> anything crazy like separately static linking libc.
>

I wouldn't advise this in the general case. When you have complete 
end-to-end control, sure. But if, for example, you're using a dynamic 
binding to load a shared library, all bets are off. Most likely on Linux 
and Mac you'll be fine. But on Windows, the shared lib could have been 
compiled with DMC, GCC, MSVC, or who knows what else.