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.TH curs_memleaks 3X ""
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library.
.PP
Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with
-a screen, since (even after calling \fBendwin\fP), it must be available
+a screen, since (even after calling \fBendwin\fP(3X)), it must be available
for use in the next call to \fBrefresh\fP(3X).
There are also chunks of memory held for performance reasons.
That makes it hard to analyze curses applications for memory leaks.