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What is the recommended way to free allocated memory?  I'm allocating memory in my init block and I'm wondering if I can define a dealloc method to free it when the class is destroyed?

Make your constructor take a MemorySegment and make it the callers problem

If it's an external C API, you could make your type AutoCloseable and once again make it your callers problem

There's also <https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.native.ref/-cleaner.html|Cleaner> for Kotlin/Native that will be called when the Kotlin object gets gc'ed.

Here's an example where I use `Cleaner` to free a GMP integer when a wrapper object is collected: <https://codeberg.org/loke/array/src/commit/f35a73f1ae4c864349d018396c38a47a180807bb/mpbignum/src/linuxMain/kotlin/com/dhsdevelopments/mpbignum/bigint-linux.kt#L31|https://codeberg.org/loke/array/src/commit/f35a73f1ae4c864349d018396c38a47a180807bb[…]/linuxMain/kotlin/com/dhsdevelopments/mpbignum/bigint-linux.kt>