Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:12:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Chaos <chengin AT alpha DOT net DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: freeing memory and exiting (safely)
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Chaos wrote:

> >Just terminate with 'exit(1);', and that's it.
> 
> Hmm. I read that exit(X) DOES NOT do anything to memory. In info (as well as
> in Borland 3.1 help) there is that exit() sends exit code to OS, closes any
> stream and finaly terminates program. And what about memory?

All the memory is deallocated, and the related selectors freed, as part
of the DJGPP exit code.  See the file src/libc/crt0/crt0.S in the library 
sources, for the gory details.