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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Return segment to OS
Message-ID: <15951@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 23 Apr 91 20:05:31 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.100300.1367@mdcbbs.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Apr22.100300.1367@mdcbbs.com> gd010gd02@mdcbbs.com writes:
-	It appears that the memory requested from the operating
-	system by malloc() is never released even after all the
-	entries in the allocated segment have been free()'ed
-	Does anyone know of a "safe" way of returning a segment
-	to the operating system?

You didn't say WHICH operating system, but the generic answer is:
"No, if the malloc/free implementation doesn't take care of this it
would be folly for your application program to try to."