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FREE

Stack Input: Memory Address

Stack Output: None

Operand: None

Since: 2.6

Description:

This instruction reclaims the space used by a previous allocation. It pops the address of the allocation off the stack, and marks the memory space as free.



David Levitan 2006-02-12