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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Short Hello World
Message-ID: <21731@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 May 91 04:34:07 GMT
References: <4852@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <4852@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>not to mention that there is SOME RAM overhead for opening a library anyways,
>if you happen to have all memory allocated and then try to open a library.. it
>won't succeed, that is a MUCH more common occurance.  I think commodore should
>DEFINATELY squelch this rumor that rom calls will always succeed.

	Some libraries, including ROM libraries I believe, do allocations on
open.  Some even allocate entire new lib/device bases on open.  If you fail
to close them, you may lose valuable resources (and they can fail).  Even
if they don't currently allocate ram, they may tomorrow.

	Follow the rules and you won't get burned.  Work around the rules or
try to find loopholes in the rules and you will.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system
is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)