Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: 8 meg extended memory but only .8 meg in global heap?
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.010405.9261@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 01:04:05 GMT
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fred jarvis <ferdie@coyote.datalog.com> writes:
> GlobalCompact never returns more than .8 on our 486 system
> with 8 meg extended memory.  (This happens in an application
> we are developing and in a slightly modified version of Petzold's
> FREEMEM program from his book.)  Doesn't GlobalCompact return
> the amount of global heap space?

Ahh, the same bug that stumped me, too.  We used GlobalCompact() in our
Win2 version; in Win2 it returns the size of the largest allocatable block,
not the amount of free memory.  To get the total free space, you should use
GetFreeSpace()...

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