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From: a447@mindlink.UUCP (Colin Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Opening a diskfont??
Message-ID: <4360@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 91 07:30:43 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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When you close the diskfont, or close a library, or close a device (and perhaps
more resources as well), they are marked as EXPUNGABLE but they aren't
unloaded. This improves system performance while not risking low-memory
problems.

The memory allocation routines, on failing an AllocMem() will go through and
flush all EXPUNGABLE resources and then try again. This is what the program
FLUSH does - it simply attempts to allocate an impossibly large memory hunk and
that automatically flushes all flushable resources.

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