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With every use of a memory allocation function, what function should be used to release allocated memory which is no longer needed?
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free()
💡 Explanation:
free() is the standard C library function used to release dynamically allocated memory that was obtained using malloc(), calloc(), or realloc(). Every call to a memory allocation function should have a corresponding call to free() to prevent memory leaks.