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From: wallace@oldtmr.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
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Subject: Re: SPUFILE 2.0, C questions
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Date: 19 Oct 89 20:14:52 GMT
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In article <111500042@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, glk01126@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes...
>	1) Does Malloc(-1L) not work properly?
This only returns the size of the largest chunk of free memory. So if you have
holes in your free memory (non-contiguous) then it will return a number
smaller than the total of all free memory.

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