Re: Doubts about free()

vippstar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 31, 2:49 pm, Pawel Dziepak <pdzie...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Assuming there is a need for memory by some other process and no other
free memory is available, is it the case malloc for the other process
would fail under such circumstances. Does the OS do some kind of
tracking and free up this memory. Is there any way to force freeing up
the memory to the system back.
I don't think that <snip>

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