DosFreeSeg

This call deallocates a memory segment.

DosFreeSeg (Selector)

• Selector (SEL) - input : Selector of the segment to be freed.

rc (USHORT) - return

Return code descriptions are:

• 0 NO_ERROR
• 5 ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
• 212 ERROR_LOCKED

DosFreeSeg frees selectors to segments returned by allocation calls to DosAllocSeg, DosAllocShrSeg, and DosAllocHuge. In addition, DosFreeSeg frees a selector returned by a call to DosCreateCSAlias. If a CS alias selector has been created for a data segment by a call to DosCreateCSAlias, the CS alias selector is still valid after the segment's data selector has been freed.

When allocated memory is shared, all selectors to the shared memory must be freed before the memory is deallocated. For example, if memory allocated by DosAllocSeg or DosAllocHuge has been given to another process with DosGiveSeg, the giver usually frees its selector by a call to DosFreeSeg. The recipient, in turn, frees the selector passed to it, after it has accessed the shared memory with DosGetSeg.

DosFreeSeg decrements the reference count for named shared segments allocated by DosAllocShrSeg. Access to the segment with DosGetShrSeg increments this count. When the count is 0, the memory is deallocated.

Some options operate differently in the DOS mode than in OS/2 mode. Therefore, the following restriction applies to DosFreeSeg when coding for the DOS mode:

If DosFreeSeg is issued on a CSAliased segment it deallocates the associated memory. This is inconsistent with the OS/2 mode, because DosFreeSeg must be performed on both the original and CSAliased selectors.

  #define INCL_DOSMEMMGR
 
  USHORT  rc = DosFreeSeg(Selector);
 
  SEL              Selector;      /* Selector */
 
  USHORT           rc;            /* return code */

This example allocates a segment of 30,250 bytes and then discards the segment.

  #define INCL_DOSMEMMGR
 
  #define NUMBER_OF_BYTES 30250
  #define ALLOC_FLAG SEG_GETTABLE
 
  SEL    Selector;
  USHORT rc;
 
     rc = DosAllocSeg(NUMBER_OF_BYTES,     /* # of bytes requested */
                      &Selector,           /* Selector allocated */
                     ALLOC_FLAG);         /* Allocation flags */
   rc = DosFreeSeg(Selector);            /* Segment selector */

  EXTRN  DosFreeSeg:FAR
  INCL_DOSMEMMGR      EQU 1
 
  PUSH   WORD    Selector      ;Selector
  CALL   DosFreeSeg

Returns WORD

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