[Dev-C++] RES: RES: RES: Question about software design

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Sorry, but I didn´t understand the stack realease sfuff...

-->Suppose I make a lot of malloc´s during the execution of
my program. Then I finish the execution (without "freeing" the
memory).
-->Does all the "malloced" memory return to the Operating
System and can be considered available again?

Thank you!
Andre
  -----Mensagem original-----
  De: Rafael Menezes [mailto:so...@gm...]
  Enviada em: quarta-feira, 21 de novembro de 2007 10:02
  Para: André Macário Barros
  Assunto: Re: [Dev-C++] RES: RES: Question about software design


  Hi André.

  I'm not asking about some particular language skill's, and if you are
using ANSI C, that is great. Not much people see that ANSI C is faster than
anything else (with one exception to assembly, but assembly... oh joy...),
and can be used in many places of the code in order to increase speed and
memory usage. Keep using that everywhere it fits. About that automatic
memory release, well... the memory will be cleaned up in most cases, but you
cant count on that. Sometimes (each time you ask for a new memory space that
is bigger than the actual remaining stack on the SO, reserved to your
application), you can just see your memory leaking and don't have a thread
to kill and stop this beast. The normal memory management functions supplied
with C compilers do not provide garbage collection. free and calloc still
can be useful in your code.

  Regards
  Rafael
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