f="dbt.html" title="Chapter 4.  The DBT Handle">DBT</a>  
         object, will cause the <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2.  The DB Handle">DB</a>  methods to allocate and
         reallocate memory which then becomes the responsibility of the calling
         application.  Other examples are the Berkeley DB interfaces
         which return statistical information to the application: 
         <a class="xref" href="dbstat.html" title="DB-&gt;stat()">DB-&gt;stat()</a>, 
         <a class="