[fpc-devel] Array of Ansistring

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 mrt 2007, at 17:22, Flávio Etrusco wrote:

> Thanks for your replies, Florian and Jonas.
> This is very nice! I was shocked and puzzled when I found the GNU libc
> allocator didn't release VM back to the OS, it's great to confirm you
> guys are (IMHO ;-) more sane than the gcc and libc folks :-)

GNU libc does release memory back to the OS as well. In fact, before  
FPC's memory manager did this too, you had use the cmem unit (which  
maps Pascal memory manager calls to libc's malloc/free/...) to get  
this functionality.


Jonas