On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Roger Chaplin wrote:

> I've written a hack that leaks memory. It uses MemPtrNew to allocate the
> memory, but never frees it. I've fixed the memory leak, but I had the
> leaky app installed on my PalmIII and consequently leaked quite a bit of
> memory.
> 
> My question is: when I delete the offending app, does the OS also find
> and free the memory that it had allocated but never freed?

That's odd... My recollection is that the OS would automatically free any
heap allocations made by a program when that program exits -- there
shouldn't be anything left by the time the program is deleted. 

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED], CIS: 70705,126)


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