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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HDSCAN  (two questions about 40-folder bug)
Message-ID: <605@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 23:04:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 23:04:46 1987
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: HDSCAN 40 FOLDER
Summary: Is Dfree() safe?  Malloc() and malloc behavior?

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Some things I don't understand about the "40-folders" bug (should be called
something else by now!):

Is calling the GEMDOS function Dfree() a possible danger?  (Does that cause
reading subdirectories, or does it simply read the FAT and count bits?)

Is repeated use of a program that uses dynamically-allocated RAM (e.g. micro-
EMACS) a danger?  I.e., when the program quits, are the blocks used for
keeping track of Malloc()ed RAM completely freed in the infamous, fixed-
size, system tables?  (Even if your compiler minimizes Malloc() calls by
Malloc-ing in big chunks and then malloc-ing out of it, it has to call
Malloc() at least once.)

- Moshe Braner

PS: could somebody send me "unshar" for the ST, or some other method for
easy transfer of many small files from a UNIX system to the ST?  Thanks.

PPS: still looking for a GEM metafile --> Postscript translator.