Dedicated function for memory allocation causes memory leak?

There is no memory leak there, but you should use new/delete instead of malloc/free. Especially since your function is templated.

There is no visible memory leak, however there is a high risk for a memory leak with code like this. Try to always wrap up resources in an object (RAII). Std::vector does exactly what you want.

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