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From: ian@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Question About NewPtr...
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.002913.7668@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 05:29:13 GMT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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This is in regard to the question posted recently about HEAP compaction
and lost pointers....I writing a program in C (Think C) for the Mac and up till
now I was using malloc for dynamic allocation when I saw the posting (and 
spoke with Jason) I checked Inside Mac volume I the info about the memory
manager was interesting all that about relocatable blocks and whatnot...but
the information about NewPtr wasn't very specific...it says that NewPtr returns
a Ptr....I tried replacing all of my mallocs with NewPtr but now I get a
compile error saying that the varible and the Ptr returned by NewPtr aren't
the same...I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...the varible I'm trying to set
is of type 
SomeRecord    *gAPointer;
could anyone help me out....Thanx 
-- 
Scruffy
Ian Sullivan
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