PC> Is it possible for an OS/2 app to leak memory?  I heard that when an OS/2
 PC> app is terminated that OS/2 will reclaim ALL and ANY 
 PC> memory that the app was
 PC> using.

This is generally true.  There are things to note:

 1) There is no such thing as a Workplace Shell "program";  a WPS program
    is a DLL,  so it must be particularly vigilant about cleaning up
    after itself.

 2) Anything you put in the PM clipboard,  but do not delete,  will remain
    in memory.

 3) At one time,  forgetting to delete bitmap handles and the like would
    chew up memory,  but I think all of these bugs have been tracked
    down by now.

 PC> For example, say I have a container that uses a RECORDCORE (or
 PC> MINIRECORDCORE) structure, and I don't free the icons (or possibly some
 PC> other info in the struct), would this cause a memory leak?

Anything an EXE allocates with DosAllocMem (therefore malloc() or new),will
be freed when the program ends.  

However -- if your container is ever closed and then reopened by the user, 
then your recordcore's will not have been freed -- if they do this a lot
and your program runs for a very long time,  it will chew up memory.


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