How will you free the allocated memory ? code example

Example 1: how to dynamically allocate array size in c

// declare a pointer variable to point to allocated heap space
int    *p_array;
double *d_array;

// call malloc to allocate that appropriate number of bytes for the array

p_array = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int)*50);      // allocate 50 ints
d_array = (int *)malloc(sizeof(double)*100);  // allocate 100 doubles


// use [] notation to access array buckets 
// (THIS IS THE PREFERED WAY TO DO IT)
for(i=0; i < 50; i++) {
  p_array[i] = 0;
}

// you can use pointer arithmetic (but in general don't)
double *dptr = d_array;    // the value of d_array is equivalent to &(d_array[0])
for(i=0; i < 50; i++) {
  *dptr = 0;
  dptr++;
}

Example 2: what happens if we don't free dynamically allocated memory

But the memory allocation using malloc() is not de-allocated on its own. 
So, “free()” method is used to de-allocate the memory. But the free() 
method is not compulsory to use. If free() is not used in a program the
memory allocated using malloc() will be de-allocated after completion 
of the execution of the program