Say you have the following ANSI C code that initializes a multi-dimensional array :
int main()
{
int i, m = 5, n = 20;
int **a = malloc(m * sizeof(int *));
//Initialize the arrays
for (i = 0; i < m; i++) {
a[i]=malloc(n * sizeof(int));
}
//...do something with arrays
//How do I free the **a ?
return 0;
}
After using the **a, how do I correctly free it from memory ?
[Update] (Solution)
Thanks to Tim's (and the others) answer, I can now do such a function to free up memory from my multi-dimensional array :
void freeArray(int **a, int m) {
int i;
for (i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
free(a[i]);
}
free(a);
}