Re: How far should one go preventing potential memory leaks?

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> Well, in the real code the allocations are made for user supplied
> parameters, so I don't
> know neither the size of the parameters not their count (which can be
> up to 65535), so
> I really need to allocate the memory.

how about C99 variable length arrays? C99 is available almost everywhere 
by now, given that it is 17 years old, and var arrays seem to do exactly 
what you want with added leakage prevention.