From: "Chaos" <chengin AT alpha DOT net DOT pl>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: freeing memory and exiting (safely)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:45:52 +0100
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hi there.

In my program, I use several buffers which are dynamically allocated
(malloc) and also freed during run time (free). For every buffer I'm setting
condition which looks close to this:

background=malloc(BACKGROUND_BUF_SIZE);
if(!background)
   {
    fprintf(stderr,"Can't allocate memory for buffor ''background''! \n");
    return 1;
   }

My question is that if the prog reaches that "return 1" (synonim for error)
does those buffers will be safely deallocated?
Generaly I'm interested about knowing is there any function that frees all
previously allocated memory without asking me what buffer exist or not. I
just want to exit safe from the program and deallocate it's memory without
blocking it in later use.
I know I want something very weird ;-)

Take care.
-=| Chaos |=-
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