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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shared addresses between applications with system 7
Keywords: Shared data, A5, Memory Manager
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.145629.14699@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:56:29 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.204031.11225@cec1.wustl.edu> jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun) writes:
>
>  I need to have a block of memory available to two applications running
>concurrently (one of the applications doesn't know about the goodies of 
>System 7 so I can't use either AppleEvents or raw PPC, and using a shared 
>file is too slow).  

I'm not sure what the problem here is.  Assuming you can pass a pointer from
one application to another, have one program do a NewPtr, pass the pointer
(which is an absolute pointer) to the other program.  Then both programs can
access that area of memory (which actually exists in the first application's
heap, but that is relatively unimportant...)
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