BS> Maybe somebody can clear up my confusion.  I somehow got the impression
 BS> that in Delphi/Windows, unlike TP/DOS, any memory allocated dynamically
 BS> with GetMem() or New() is not automatically returned to the system when
 BS> the program exits.  In other words, in Delphi, you have to free it
 BS> yourself with FreeMem/Dispose.
 GW> Windows will automatically free allocated memory when a program exits
 GW> properly. That doesn't mean that you should not do your own release of
 GW> memory. 
   I'm still (more) confused.  If Windows releases allocated memory
when a program terminates, and if a Heap area isn't being reused within
the program's execution, why _should_ you burden the program code with
(seemingly extraneous) Dispose/FreeMem calls which do nothing functional
for the program?
   Believe me, I know the value/use of Dispose/FreeMem on TP/BP (I
moderate the Pascal_Lessons echo), but are you saying that Delphi has
different rules than them for their use?
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