Freeing

Is there any real point in freeing memory these days? And I don't mean freeing memory for things that constantly grow and shrink in size. I mean freeing that one array that you malloc at the beginning of the program and you need it until the end of the program. What is the benefit of freeing it when it will be automatically freed by the operating system?

>>7
that's pretty stupid. if you don't want your program's data to stay in memory you should zero it out yourself.

>>7
Both Windows and Linux leave the memory intact when you work in C.

>>7
Oh, that's why all my uninitialized variables have random values.