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From: Fabien Garcia <fabien.garcia@laas.fr>
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Subject: Re: access / freeing memory
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:51:20 +0200
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Jan Prazak wrote:

> Let me know if I did understand this correctly: if I have a "head", which
> can access nodes (in a list), and I create some nodes and connect
> them,for instance:
> 
>   head -> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> null
> 
> and if I do nothing (so the program will end), the operating system (or
> compiler???) does the deallocation automatically, just because "head" is
> a variable. It then goes, starting at head, through the whole list and
> frees the memory occupied by every node. Right?


In fact when your program terminates all the memory allocated to the 
process by the OS is freed. It's not a question of referenced
or unreferenced menory. The deallocation doesn't goes "down" your list
throught each node, it just erase everything.

Hope it will help a bit, sorry for not being able to answer to the 
others questions (I will be interested by others answer thought :) )

Fabien