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From: ma199at@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (L J Cris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Memory, what *REALLY* will relocate/purge heap?
Keywords: Memory, heap zone
Message-ID: <5847@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 89 09:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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What I would have liked for Christmas:
A real list of routines that will or will not scramble/purge the heap. 

I don't want to seem unhappy with what was listed in the X-Ref
manual of Inside Macintosh,  but I am.

Can someone explain to me why DisposHandle, DisposPtr or
SndDisposeChannel and many other dispose routines would scramble/purge
the heap? 

All they do is deallocate memory, don't they? Other than the memory
you want to release, what else would be affected?

-cris rys
ma199at@sdcc6.ucsd.edu