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Message: [QUOTE="SM Ryan, post: 2468858"] # I ask my compiler to carve out memory in main and in a subroutine. The # adage is that if one asks an OS for memory, he must give it back. I # would think that the requested memory in the subroutine would disappear # when the return is made. It would also seem that I've created a memory What makes heap memory like malloc so useful is precisely that the memory is not automatically released when a procedure returns. The normal C malloc does not garbage collect, so it is your responsibility to keep a pointer to each mallocked block until you free it, and not to use the pointer after free. [/QUOTE]