Help! Free C memory :(

[casybay]

Hi all,

I am working on a program and I have heap corruption errors. After I debug, I found out that the following codes have problem. And I moved these code to another project and debug it. Please see the following:

#include <stdafx.h>

int main()
{
    char targetFile[] = "target.txt";
	free(targetFile);
	return 0;
}

The debug message shows "Error 1 error C3861: 'free': identifier not found d:\study\....\a a.cpp 8"

Could you please tell me how to free memory for 'targetFile' array?
Thanks a lot!!

[Laharl]

Free is in <stdlib.h>, so you should #include it.

[wildc]

Hey buddy
the argument i.e pointer in the free function could only be the address returned by malloc or calloc not any other pointer.

[weaknessforcats]

Plus that stdafx.h looks like Windows code. If so, you should be using the TCHAR mappings.