NAME

free − deallocate a region of memory allocated by malloc

SYNOPSIS

subroutine free ( ptr )
pointer ( ptr, x )

DESCRIPTION

free deallocates a region of memory previously allocated by malloc.  The region of memory is returned to the memory manager; it is not explicitly available to the user’s program. 

FILES

/usr/lang/f77/libF77.a

SEE ALSO

malloc(3F)

SunOS 5.0  —  Last change: 07 July 1995