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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Adam D. Bradley wrote: > This is, methinks, a libc problem...malloc() will (when necessary) aquire > a heap of memory w/ a system call, then allocate segments within that > heap; free() marks those sections of the heap "de-allocated", but does not > return it to the OS until the program exits. Doesnt the "new" malloc in libc 5.3.12 returns memory to the OS when free is called? | ||||||||||||
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