From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: free() DOESN'T return memory to system
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:50:29 GMT
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:50:29 GMT
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On 18 Sep 2000 13:24:30 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

>Sorry, but you seem to have missed the second part of the explanation of
>what free() does. Just because it doesn't free the memory for use by the
>system at large (i.e. Winblows) doesn't mean free() would do nothing at
>all. It *does* make the memory available for use by later malloc() calls
>in the same program.

So what call makes memory available for programs that you spawn()?