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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: how to allocate a big chunk of memory?
Message-ID: <641@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 23:06:02 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.641
Posted: Wed Apr  8 23:06:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 13:49:17 EST
References: <4464@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (braner)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 11
Keywords: malloc, Malloc
Summary: No easy way

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The C (and other) compilers can only give you what TOS yields, even if it
is repackaged.  So for example, Megamax C takes big (8K or larger) chunks
from TOS, using Malloc(), when you do a malloc(), then manages those chunks
on its own when you do more malloc()s.  It never returns the space to TOS
until you exit the program, even if you free() it all!

I wonder if some ways of using Malloc() are safe.

- Moshe Braner