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Title:	MEM31-C. Free dynamically allocated memory when no longer needed
Author:	Robert C. Seacord	Jun 20, 2006
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 06, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/GNYxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: STR31-C. Guarantee that storage for strings has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator     Page: CC. Undefined Behavior

SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)     Page: MEM51-CPP. Properly deallocate dynamically allocated resources

Parent Page     Page: Rule 08. Memory Management (MEM)

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Time	Editor
May 06, 2025 10:47	David Svoboda	View Changes
May 06, 2025 10:30	David Svoboda	View Changes
May 05, 2025 08:55	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Dec 12, 2024 01:17	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
Nov 08, 2024 13:54	Caden Milne
Updated references from C11->C23

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