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From: derek@philmds.UUCP (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Shrinking Heap Size (was Re: An answer on executing alien programs within TP)
Summary: How to shrink heap
Keywords: Alien Pascal Heap size
Message-ID: <1090@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 11:12:55 GMT
References: <1319@rwthinf.UUCP> <1756@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: derek@sundts.UUCP (Derek Carr)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <1756@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-eli@nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz) writes:
>... If your program needs any heap space, you will have to decide how
>much at compile time (and experiment with the z & y numbers too). There is no
>easy way to change this at runtime (though it's possible to shrink the heap,
>then Exec, and then restore the heap...)
>
So the question is, 'is there a simple way to do this?' I'm using the heap
a lot, and also Exec, so there is always a conflict of interests - there is
never enough memory, is there?
 

Regards Derek.