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From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Memory Management Program?
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.020616.7802@disk.uucp>
Date: 20 Jun 91 02:06:16 GMT
Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
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Would it be possible to write a program to intercept and monitor calls
allocating memory and keep track of the programs making these calls. Then
when the program exits, if the memory is not freed correctly, to appropriately
free up the memory? Would this be practical? I know it would be nice to have
my amiga just for once not need to be rebooted due to some program not
properly unallocating its memory. Also, perhaps the program could monitor
memory an intercept other calls and do some error checking to prevent 
guru's? 

Is there anything in existance like this? Is it possible to intercept these
calls? 

Its unfortunate that while our unix system may run for weeks at a time, the
amiga will eventually crash after only 1 day. Is this a flaw in the machine
architecture and design? or is it just that the unix is more protected?

Byron