NAME

FreeVec: return AllocVec() memory to the system (V36)

SYNOPSIS

FreeVec(memoryBlock)

void FreeVec(void *);

FUNCTION

Free an allocation made by the AllocVec() call. The memory will be returned to the system pool from which it came.

WARNING

Memory allocation and deallocation as well as querying how much memory is available requires a Task or, by extension, a Process. None of the exec kernel memory management operations is safe to call from interrupt code!

NOTES

If a block of memory is freed twice, the system will Guru. The Alert is AN_FreeTwice ($01000009). If you pass the wrong pointer, you will probably see AN_MemCorrupt $01000005. Future versions may add more sanity checks to the memory lists.

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