Translations from Turing

[wtd]

Amazingly enough, that list is probably missing a lot of languages.

[DtY]

C:

char * greeting(const char * name) {    char * output = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (9 + strlen(name)));    sprintf(output, "Hello, %s!", name);    return output; }

Wouldn't the line with malloc(); lead to a memory leak? You're not freeing it.

[edit] Sorry, for bumping, I didn't realize this had been dead for years

[wtd]

DtY @ Thu May 21, 2009 8:38 am wrote:

C:

char * greeting(const char * name) {    char * output = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (9 + strlen(name)));    sprintf(output, "Hello, %s!", name);    return output; }

Wouldn't the line with malloc(); lead to a memory leak? You're not freeing it.

Why in the world would I free that memory within the function itself?

The whole point of allocating on the heap is so that the function returns a valid pointer.

[DtY]

Yes, I know if you freed it inside that function the pointer would be useless, but you never free that memory.

[DemonWasp]

He has a point. In your main(), you should be capturing that pointer and freeing it properly, but you're not. Probably a non-issue since the program ends immediately but better style regardless.