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How about Win32? Can't I just call free()?

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Re: Re: Re: make perl release memory
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 19, 2003 at 15:10 UTC

    Well, a cursory test of: 

       main()
   {
       char *foo = (char *)malloc(1000000);
       getch();
       free(foo);
       getch()
   }

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    Examined in task manager would suggest not, of course this is highly unscientific and someone else might know different. 

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Re: Re: Re: make perl release memory
by broquaint (Abbot) on Jun 19, 2003 at 15:08 UTC
    Using free(ptr) will just make available the memory pointed to by ptr in the process' memory pool, not to the OS at large. This memory freeing behaviour isn't Win32 specific, but applies to most modern OSes.
    HTH

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Re: Re: Re: make perl release memory
by Elian (Parson) on Jun 19, 2003 at 17:24 UTC
    Perl already does.
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