From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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Subject: Re: Exacltly when does actually DJGPP free allocated memory?
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:06:21 GMT
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Seunghwan Ji <shjee AT nexgen DOT co DOT kr> wrote:
> Exaclty when does actually DJGPP(or allegro) free allocated memory
> after free()? Is it after some minutes? Is it after special function
> calls? or Only after the program ends(exit to DOS)..?

IIRC, free'd blocks are marked as available for use by following calls
to malloc. They are *not* returned to DOS (or memory would become very
fragmented!). Normally, memory usage should stabilize after a while,
because most free'd blocks will be malloc'ed again.

Hope this helps.

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