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From: rpk@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Pleasures and Penanties of the Large Model
Summary: malloc lossage
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Date: 7 Sep 90 19:39:30 GMT
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Does Microsoft consider it a bug that specifying GMEM_FIXED in
GlobalAlloc wires down memory ?

Now, in some ways, it's not a bug, because the semantics correspond
with the function GlobalFix.  It's less confusing because one word
(Fix) means one thing. On the other hand, when malloc calls
GlobalAlloc in such a manner, fixing all the pages is clearly too
much, and renders one's program ill-behaved.

So will GlobalAlloc be changed, or will the Windows large model
version of malloc (_fmalloc) be changed ?
Robert P. Krajewski
Internet: rpk@ai.mit.edu ; Lotus: robert_krajewski.lotus@crd.dnet.lotus.com