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From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench bug?
Message-ID: <1623@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 18:24:41 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1623
Posted: Thu Apr  2 18:24:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 17:08:45 EST
References: <1526@stb.UUCP> <1987Mar23.105013.28895@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1987Mar24.131921.11957@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1987Mar24.131921.11957@sq.uucp> hobie@sq.UUCP (Hobie Orris) writes:
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> What does `loadwb -debug' do for you?  I've never heard of it before.

   Loadwb -debug adds a fourth untitled menu to the workbench backdrop.
Under 1.2, this menu contains "Debug" (throws you into RomWack) and
"Flushlibs" (flushes all disk-resident devices/libraries/fonts which
are hanging around in ram but are not currently opened).  The Flushlibs
is handy for checking if a program which uses disk-resident libs/devs/fonts
is really deallocating everything it should.  After the Flushlibs, all
memory should be returned.  All Flushlibs does is a too-big AllocMem which
fails.  Any memory request which can't be satisfied causes AllocMem to
kick out any devs/libs/fonts that are hanging around, hopefully freeing
up enough ram to satisfy the request.  Flushlibs is also handy for
forcing a disk resident device/lib/font to be freshly loaded from
disk.  (For instance - If you are writing a printer driver and want
your new version to be loaded in for testing).
   
   1.1 Workbench's Debug menu contained some additional selections for
kprintf'ing various system lists out the serial port.  The additional
selections were removed to make room for 1.2 OS enhancements.

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