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From: nts0699@dsacg1.UUCP (Gene McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Releasing heap space - MSC 4.0
Message-ID: <279@dsacg1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 10:42:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 10:42:50 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 02:57:06 EST
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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Keywords: release heap malloc MSC
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:10790 comp.lang.c:5722

Is there a way to release large blocks of malloc'd heap space back to the 
system when it is freed and no longer needed? General-purpose heap clean-up
routine? I have an application that
exec's other stuff (system("...") call) and I'd like to make all the memory
available that I no longer need.

Thanx ...
Gene

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