> I need to know how VFP50 handles local vs private memory variables. Do you > have to expicitely release them to free up the memory before the routine > goes out of scope ? I have a rather complicated function that handles > incoming DDE messages. Over the course of several hours its buiding up the > amount of user allocated memory (returned by SYS(1016). I've declared all > the variables as local and am explicitly releasing them each time after the > routine runs. Dos VFP not free up memory when running SQL queries or > something like that ? > > I've tried stepping through the code and watching the sys(1016) value on > each line but it tends to vary wildly. > > I'me aslo using the sys(3050) function to set the size of the buffer that > VFP uses but I'm not at all clear what it actually does. Yes VFP, and FP before it, release the memory used by variables when they go out of scope.