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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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Subject: Re: TP/windows
Keywords: Turbo Pascal, MS-WIndows
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Date: 6 Apr 91 18:13:12 GMT
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To answer your questions about memory access in TP for Windows, see
Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows".  There's a chapter about memory
management.

Windows will let you allocate most of the free memory - but you'll still
have to fight segmented worms (I mean segmented memory).

Terrell


In other words, if you don't mind managing multiple megabytes in <= 64K
chunks you'll be ok...


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Question for TP-Windows programmers:  I'm a Pascal programmer but I've
been programming Windows with BC++ 2.0...  My question - in a windows
application many of your procedures require statically bound variables
because they're called by Windows (not by your program) and must retain
various things...

How is this handled in TP for Windows?  Is there a "static" storage type
or must you use GAG PUKE globals?

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