Why freed struct in C still has data?

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Published on 2010-06-02T17:36:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 17:44 UTC
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When I run this code:

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct _Food
{
    char          name [128];
} Food;

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
    Food  *food;

food = (Food*) malloc (sizeof (Food));
snprintf (food->name, 128, "%s", "Corn");

free (food);

printf ("%d\n", sizeof *food);
printf ("%s\n", food->name);
}

I still get

128
Corn

although I have freed food. Why is this? Is memory really freed?

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