Should this C pointer be released?

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Published on 2010-05-20T15:11:57Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 15:50 UTC
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Please excuse my C newbiness.

Consider the following C procedure:

int doSomething() {
    char *numbers="123456";
    ...
}

Before this procedure exits should I be releasing the 'numbers' pointer?

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