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Memory Manager Routines / Freeing Memory

CompactMemSys

You can use the CompactMemSys function to compact the system heap zone manually.

FUNCTION CompactMemSys (cbNeeded: Size): Size;

cbNeeded

The size in bytes of the block for which CompactMemSys should attempt to make room.

DESCRIPTION

The CompactMemSys function works much as the CompactMem function does, but compacts the system heap instead of the current heap.

RESULT CODES

noErr

0

No error