free() example for a FREE (pun intended) course called RC8 released by SkyPenguinLabs or SPLabs

main.cpp

#include <iostream>

//// Haxxernote: it throws a security warning, its a bad unsafe function
int main() {
    char input[10];
    std::cout << "Enter your name> ";
    std::cin >> input;
    char* copy = (char*)malloc(strlen(input) * sizeof(char));
    strcpy(copy, input);
    std::cout << "Echo -> " << copy << std::endl;
    free(copy);
    return 0;
}

///// target: x64
///// type  : Release
///// pre_processing macros: 
/*
        NDEBUG
        _CONSOLE
        _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
        _UNICODE
        UNICODE
*/
//// RTLT (Runtime library type used) - Multi Threaded / Multi Threaded DLL (both work, we used both for the sample) 
//// via: REC8 by SkyPenguinLabs @skypenguinlabs.wtf