Question on memory allocation

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rod54 (Posted 2005) [#1]

Can someone explain why memory does not get released for b in example below. Rem Release removes the internal reference caused by creating an integer handle to a type. End Rem Type MyType field bigmap[1024*1024] End Type a=new MyType Print MemAlloced() release a FlushMem Print MemAlloced() Print a b:MyType=new MyType Print MemAlloced() release b FlushMem Print MemAlloced() output: Executing:Release.exe 4207424 8932 0 4203367 4203272

Who was John Galt? (Posted 2005) [#2]

Some memory is used in linking an integer handle to a type - release frees the memory used for that. I guess when you release the handle, you have cleared the only reference to to mytype it points to, so that can be freed too on the next flushmem. b is of type mytype - no integer handle - so no handle memory to reclaim. To free the memory pointed to by b, set b=Null and Flushmem.

Eric (Posted 2005) [#3]

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=44911 This will help

rod54 (Posted 2005) [#4]

thanks for the info...