Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!basil.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@basil.usc.edu (bob larson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: effect of free() Message-ID: <19279@usc.edu> Date: 19 Aug 89 06:09:01 GMT References: <319@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU> <3756@buengc.BU.EDU><320@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU> <3777@buengc.BU.EDU> <1989Aug17.005548.745@twwells.com> <568@augean.OZ> <14343@haddock.ima.isc.com> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: blarson@basil.usc.edu (bob larson) Organization: USC AIS, Los Angeles Lines: 13 In article <14343@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: >If free() >actually releases the segment to the operating system (I don't know of any >implementations that do, but the possibility is there), The Os9/68k free will, under certain circumstanses, realease the space back to the operating system for use by other processes. -- Bob Larson Arpa: blarson@basil.usc.edu Uucp: {uunet,cit-vax}!usc!basil!blarson Prime mailing list: info-prime-request%ais1@usc.edu usc!ais1!info-prime-request