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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What if I don't free() all my dynamically allocated memory?
Message-ID: <10242@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 May 89 15:21:58 GMT
References: <2580@ssc-vax.UUCP> <386@nbires.nbi.com> <1384@dukeac.UUCP> <2239@athertn.Atherton.COM> <1391@dukeac.UUCP> <543@laic.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <543@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>Without it, the OS will have to go to a lot of work to
>keep track of the memory you allocated.

If the Apple IIGS can do this, there's no excuse for other systems
not taking care of it.