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From: Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: MWDebugIO
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 16:00:35 +0100
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Craig Graham wrote:

> Philip Gooch wrote:
>
> > But, I don't know how to free up this memory afterwards. Because it's
> > not dynamically allocated, free(p) won't work, will it? Do I just  set p
> > to NULL? Have I answered my own question?
>
> To get back the memory used for TIM's you've loaded into VRAM already,what
> you can do is organise all such 'disposable' TIM's to be AFTER your
> code and other data. Then, you can re-initialise the malloc system after
> loading
> the TIM's to the VRAM so that you will get the memory back for use
> at runtime...
>
> (yes, I'm aware that most people don't do this and put their graphics data
> before
> the code in memory - well, you don't get the memory back to the heap if you
> do it that way)
>

Thanks Craig. And if storing my TIM as static data in an array (using Steve
Dunn's bin2hex program), how can I free up the memory taken up by the array
afterwards?

Thanks in advance

Phil