free() not working correctly with struct

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It is always a good habit to set the pointer to NULL after freeing it.
Since the memory you are accessing is still intact you are seeing right values for l->val.

Node *l=malloc(sizeof(Node));
l->key="foo";
l->val="bar";
free(l);
l = NULL;

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