Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!zen!ucbvax!cbosgd!osu-cis!dsacg1!nts0699 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 Article-I.D.: dsacg1.279 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 Lines: 14 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 -- Gene McManus @ Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus, OH 43215 (614) 238-9403, Autovon 850- UUCP: {seismo!gould,cbatt!osu-cis}!dsacg1!gmcmanus The views expressed are my own, not those of The Agency, or Dept. of Defense