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Re: Does dropping objects really free memory?


From: Marcus G. Daniels
Subject: Re: Does dropping objects really free memory?
Date: 19 Oct 1999 20:09:29 -0700
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>>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

PJ> Suppose I quit my swarm program and those
PJ> objects have not yet been told to free their allocation.  Are
PJ> those "unfreed blocks" going to show in dmalloc's output just the
PJ> same as blocks that are lost due to a memory leak

Anything not explicitly dropped before the program exits will be
reported by dmalloc.  And of course this is is all reported from the
perspective of malloc and free.


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