From: hipermar AT mail2 DOT esoterica DOT pt (Hiper M.A.R.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: free() DOESN'T return memory to system
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:04:15 GMT
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HI,
Has it is clearly stated in Faq15_2.html:
"When you call free, DJGPP library doesn't return memory to the
system, it just adds it to its internal pool of free pages. So, from
the point of view of the DPMI server, these pages are not "free". "
My question is:
Isn't there some way to return memory to system (besides quitting the
program!)?
In MS Visual C, _heapmin() takes care of this.
Thanks.