Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] limit
Date: Wednesday, 28 Oct 2020, 07:01:58

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > "The limit is on the total amount of storage in the data
    > (= globals and static locals), heap (= malloc()-ed), and
    > stack (= arguments and automatic locals) segments and
    > applies at ALL times."
    >
    > On this limit above that you explained in another response, does this also
    > applied to freed memory? For example, if we had 10000 bytes of memory (and
    > 9*SIZE was hypothetically 20000 bytes), and then freed the memory, and
    > then allocated 15000 bytes, is the 10000 bytes that were initially freed
    > looked at for the 9*SIZE constraint?

No, freed blocks do not count toward the amount of
memory in use at any point in time.

--Stan-