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From: pete@Octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Looking for experience with big project upgrades from MSC 5.1 to 6.0
Summary: Thanks!
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.134206.24858@Octopus.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 90 13:42:06 GMT
References: <1990Jun13.132843.13966@Octopus.COM> <90Jun13.221146edt.20004@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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Thanks, everybody!

It looks like we'll be waiting for another release. Or maybe taking a look
at other compiler vendors in the not-too-distant future.

One hint: are you having trouble with malloc'd memory fragmentation? If you
don't mind the overhead of wasting a paragraph (16 bytes) per malloc and
a 16 byte granularity, just call the DOS malloc Int21 calls! We gave up
on MSC's malloc routines and went straight to DOS. No more hassles, works
great every time, and you can even manage the allocation strategy (most
stuff gets allocated normally, but we switch to the high-RAM strategy in
our database section; this avoids fragmentation of the low-RAM blocks!)

Pete
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