- the remainder on exit. The ncurses utility and test programs use this
- feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro.
+ the remainder and then exit. The ncurses utility and test programs
+ use this feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro.
+
+ Because this lies outside of the library's intended usage, it is not
+ normally considered part of the ABI. If there were some (as yet
+ unplanned) extension which frees memory in a manner that would let the
+ library resume and reallocate memory, then that would not use a "_nc_"
+ prefix.