Should I free allocated memory on abnormal termination?

Question

My program (a text-mode web browser) is dynamically allocating memory.

I do free unneeded blocks during runtime, of course. And I do free everything before normal te

Answer 1

Only if your OS doesn't reclaim memory on program termination. DOS and its 'sticky memory' is an example of such an OS. On most modern OS not free()'ing on abnormal termination is a non-issue.