Freeing Stack Memory

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The following program allocates stack memory for the stack_addr variable. Because the memory was allocated on the stack, the program cannot deallocate it.

int main (int argc, char *argv[])

{

void *stack_addr = &stack_addr;

/* Error: freeing a stack address */

free(stack_addr);

return 0;

}