Man Page free.3f

NAME

     free - deallocate a region of memory allocated by malloc

SYNOPSIS

     subroutine free ( ptr )
     pointer ( ptr, x )

DESCRIPTION

     free deallocates a region of memory previously allocated  by
     malloc.   The  region  of  memory  is returned to the memory
     manager; it is not explicitly available to the  user's  pro-
     gram.

FILES

     /usr/lang/f77/libF77.a

SEE ALSO

     malloc(3F)