Freemem

Release allocated memory

Declaration

Source position: line 0

Description

Freemem releases the memory occupied by the pointer P, of size Count (in bytes), and returns it to the heap. P should point to the memory allocated to a dynamic variable.

Errors

An error will occur when P doesn't point to the heap.

See also

Example

Program Example28;

{ Program to demonstrate the FreeMem and GetMem functions. }

Var P : Pointer;
    MM : Longint;

begin
  { Get memory for P }
  GetMem (P,80);
  FillChar (P^,80,' ');
  FreeMem (P,80);
end.

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