The AllocRemember() routine calls the Exec AllocMem() function to perform the memory allocation. (Of course, the application may directly call Exec memory functions, see the chapter "Exec Memory Allocation" for details.) AllocRemember() performs two allocations each time it is called. The first allocation is the actual memory requested by the application. This memory is of the size and type specified in the call and is independent of the second block of memory. The second allocation is memory for a Remember structure which is used to save the specifics of the allocation in a linked list. When FreeRemember() is called it uses the information in this linked list to free all previous memory allocations at once. This is convenient since normally you would have to free each memory block one at a time which requires knowing the size and base address of each one. The AllocRemember() call takes three arguments: APTR AllocRemember( struct Remember **rememberKey, unsigned long size, unsigned long flags ); The rememberKey is the address of a pointer to a Remember structure. Note that this is a double indirection, not just a simple pointer. The size is the size, in bytes, of the requested allocation. The flags argument is the specification for the memory allocation. These are the same as the specifications for the Exec AllocMem() function described in the chapter on "Exec Memory Allocation". If AllocRemember() succeeds, it returns the address of the allocated memory block. It returns a NULL if the allocation fails. The FreeRemember() function gives the option of freeing memory in either of two ways. The first (and most useful) option is to free both the link nodes that AllocRemember() created and the memory blocks to which they correspond. The second option is to free only the link nodes, leaving the memory blocks for further use (and later deallocation via Exec's FreeMem() function). But, as a general rule, the application should never free only the link nodes as this can greatly fragment memory. If the link nodes are not required, use the Exec memory allocation functions. The FreeRemember() call is as follows: void FreeRemember( struct Remember **rememberKey, long reallyForget ); Set the rememberKey argument to the address of a pointer to a Remember structure. This is the same value that was passed to previous calls to AllocRemember(). The reallyForget argument is a boolean that should be set to TRUE. If TRUE, then both the link nodes and the memory blocks are freed. If FALSE, then only the link nodes are freed. Again, applications should avoid using the FALSE value since it can lead to highly fragmented memory.