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The manual page told me so much and through it I know lots of the background knowledge of memory management of "glibc". But I still get confused. does " malloc_trim(0) "(note zero as the parameter) mean ( 1. )all the memory in the "heap" section will be returned to OS? Or ( 2. )just all "unused" memory of the top most region of the heap will be returned to OS? If the answer is ( 1. ), what if the still used memory in the heap? if the heap has used momery at places somewhere, will them be eliminated, or the function wouldn't execute successfully? While if the answer is ( 2. ), what about those " holes " at places rather than top in the heap? They're unused memory anymore, but the top most region of the heap is still used, will this calling work efficiently?
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