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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:20:09 -0400
From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
To: jips AT sol DOT unizar DOT es
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Counting Memory Problem
Reply-To: kagel AT ts1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

Malloc allocates memory from DOS and virtual memory in 4K pages and then 
manages the user sized blocks you allocate within these pages.  When you free
you are only returning blocks withing pages to the malloc free pool not to
DPMI.

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