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- From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
- Subject: Re: VAX Pascal's Dispose Procedure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.190504.1146@dbased.nuo.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
- References: <1993Jan26.120608.2641@merrimack.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:05:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.120608.2641@merrimack.edu>,
- finocchiaroj@merrimack.edu writes:
- |>
- |>I have a question about how can I prove or disprove that the DISPOSE procedure
- |>in Vax Pascal does really return the storage space pointed to by the parameter
- |>of the dispose procedure to the system's free space so that it can be reused.
- |>
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- Do a LIB$SHOW_VM call before and after the DISPOSE call. DISPOSE calls
- LIB$FREE_VM to free the storage space. The space is available for reuse
- by future calls to NEW (or LIB$GET_VM), but your process address space
- won't shrink.
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- Steve Lionel lionel@quark.enet.dec.com
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