David Ayers wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Freeing-after-Malloc.html#Free > ing-after-Malloc > [http://tinyurl.com/yqh6n4] > "Occasionally, free can actually return memory to the operating system > and make the process smaller. Usually, all it can do is allow a later > call to malloc to reuse the space. In the meantime, the space remains in > your program as part of a free-list used internally by malloc.
Which is GNU lib c. That may apply only to Linux. On MacOS and NetBSD, the memory is given to the system. > There is no point in freeing blocks at the end of a program, because all > of the program's space is given back to the system when the process > terminates. " That should be true on any system with a decent architecture. David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
