Return segment to OS

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Apr22.100300.1367 at mdcbbs.com> gd010gd02 at mdcbbs.com writes:
-	It appears that the memory requested from the operating
-	system by malloc() is never released even after all the
-	entries in the allocated segment have been free()'ed
-	Does anyone know of a "safe" way of returning a segment
-	to the operating system?

You didn't say WHICH operating system, but the generic answer is:
"No, if the malloc/free implementation doesn't take care of this it
would be folly for your application program to try to."