From:	Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT sirppi DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Memory allocation - Help!?!
Date:	20 Aug 1999 12:56:43 +0300
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> On 18 Aug 1999, Keith McCormick wrote:

> > Also, should I manually free the physical_address_mapping or does to DJGPP
> > startup fragment do this at program termination?

> You should do it manually.  The startup/exit code only releases memory 
> and those resources that it itself allocated.

Strictly speaking, the DPMI host should free any physical address mappings
not freed by the client, but it's a good practise not to rely on that.

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Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
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