When do I need to deallocate memory?
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I am using this code inside a class to make a webbrowser control visit a website:
void myClass::visitWeb(const char *url)
{
WCHAR buffer[MAX_LEN];
ZeroMemory(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, url, strlen(url), buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
VARIANT vURL;
vURL.vt = VT_BSTR;
vURL.bstrVal = SysAllocString(buffer);
// webbrowser navigate code...
VariantClear(&vURL);
}
I call visitWeb from another void function that gets called on the handlemessage() for the app.
Do I need to do some memory deallocation here?, I see vURL is being deallocated by VariantClear but should I deallocate memory for buffer?
I've been told that in another bool I have in the same app I shouldn't deallocate anything because everything clear out when the bool return true/false, but what happens on this void?
