RE: When does manually allocated memory get released?

End of ACTGRP or end of job will also free any allocated heap storage as heap storage is an activation group-level resource.

Mihael

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:08 AM
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Subject: Re: When does manually allocated memory get released?

good practice would be to release the memory by your own, to avoid to shrink
the heap space. End of ACTGRP will destroy all pointers in your static
allocated storage, but I would suspect, that there is no "garbage collector"
to reclaim the heap storage.

D*B

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From: "Bryce Martin" <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:02 PM
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: When does manually allocated memory get released?

List Experts...
I'm currently using a pointer based array and manually
allocating/reallocating space for the array. This program runs in a named
activation group. If I don't manually deallocate (maybe due to an
uncaught error), does the memory get release when the AG is destroyed or
when the job ends? I'm guessing its when the AG is destroyed, but I'd
like to make sure.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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