The OCSF memory management functions are a class of routines for reclaiming memory allocated by OCSF on behalf of an application from the OCSF memory heap. When OCSF allocates objects from its own heap and returns them to an application, the application must inform OCSF when it no longer requires the use of that object. Applications use specific APIs to free OCSF-allocated memory. When an application invokes an API free function, OCSF can choose to retain or free the indicated object depending on other conditions known only to OCSF. In this way, OCSF and applications work together to manage these objects in the OCSF memory heap.