I'm trying to add a string at the end of pointer to pointer in C, I'm using the below code the problem is I can't free what I have allocated as the pointer to pointer has values that were not all allocated memory, How can I add string at the end of a pointer to pointer properly?

int     add_environ(char *str, char **envp)
{
    char    **r;
    int     i;

    r = envp;
    i = 0;
    while (r[i])
   {
        i++;
    }
 //how can I add string without using malloc?
// my problem is I can't free this allocated memory
    r[i] = malloc(strlen(str));
    if (r[i])
    {
        r[i] = str;
        r[++i] = 0;
        return (1);
    }
    return (0);
}

If your question only targets environmental variables, then I would go with setenv. If not, Waxrat gave you one solution. Oh, btw: You're assuming in your code, that envp is arbitrarily long. That's not true either, so your code will crash sooner or later. Depending on your exact requirements, I would suggest to create a deep copy of envp in main and then only operate on that copy, because then everything is malloced and needs to be freed, so nothing special to track any longer.

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