On maandag, maa 17, 2003, at 04:05 Europe/Brussels, Eric Grant wrote: Based on my experience with some simple test programs (under OS X 10.2.3), and confirmed by my skimming of the sources (Revision 1.1.1.4 of malloc.c), it appears that realloc does not "free" memory (in any meaningful sense) realloc is a libc function, not a kernel function. As such, when you free memory using realloc, this memory is put back in libc's memory allocator pool for reuse for other malloc/realloc/calloc's. Jonas _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.