Re: Memory allocation errors

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:42:15 +0000 (GMT)


> I am NOT talking about DOS. Look at the libc-5.3.12/libc/malloc/free.c and
> the rest of its family. An attempt is made to return RAM to the system.

libc5.4.x does this right. Thus if there are chunks it can free up that
are not fragmented about it will return them