free dynamic allocation

Question

how to know if this memory is freed in c
ex:

int *p=malloc(sizeof(int));
free(p);
after that how to know if this memory is freed

Answer 1

its definitely free, but if you have a doubt, just use an if statement to check if the value of the pointer is NULL then the memory is freed, i guess you know how to do that

edit: am not sure they is a way to check this, but after freeing the pointer you can assign the pointer to NULL

Answer 2

p will not be null after free call because I pass p by value so p will not affected