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Answer:

You allocated 10 bytes, and stored a pointer to those bytes (xyz->abc) then you immediately replaced that pointer with a pointer to a string literal ("abcdefghi\0").

There are several problems with your program:

  1. Ten leaked bytes
  2. Excess \0 in string literal — why?
  3. free-ing something…

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