1. Re: allocate() and free() Still Alive
On 3 Dec 2000, at 21:42, Robert Craig wrote:
> Euman writes:
> > In Borland C++ 5.5 there is this
> >
> > #include <malloc.h>
> > int _heapmin(void);
> >
> > Releases unused heap areas.
>
> Thanks.
> WATCOM also has _heapmin().
> The WATCOM docs say that only a block
> at the very end of the heap can be freed back
> to the O/S.
>
> I'm still not sure if this is useful enough to make it a
> language or library feature. With modern virtual memory
> systems, if the O/S needs more memory, it can get it
> by swapping out inactive pages. I guess there would
> be fewer pages to swap out.
Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
Going to drop the MS-DOS part?
Kat
