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> > Who is responsible for freeing Answer_Ptr?
>
> If I included an Free(Answer_Ptr), would it solve this?

I believe the C function getenv returns a pointer to a system area that
has the relevant string, it does not allocate a new buffer and copy the
string to the buffer.  The corresponding Windows functions make a copy
in the user-supplied buffer (presumably as an atomic operation).