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From: pwu@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Deallocate memory block in the middle
Message-ID: <1168@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 22:25:59 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1168
Posted: Sun Mar  1 22:25:59 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 00:25:13 EST
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Keywords: memory block

Anyone knows what would happen if a TSR program deallocates its
memory while another program is running (i.e. the memory block
deallocated is not the last one in the memory-block chain)?
Would the "hole" in the chain be reclaimed after the program
has exited? Would DOS go crazy with this hole in the memory?

I'm asking this because I want to write a TSR program to do
some background task while other programs may be running.
When it has finished its background task it would deallocate
itself to free up memory.

peter
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