Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!inria!crcge1!ranson
From: ranson@crcge1.UUCP (D. Ranson CNET)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: DAHandler and memory management
Message-ID: <3378@crcge1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 07:05:52 GMT
Lines: 16
Keywords: DA memory


A friend of mine is a DA developper, and is experiencing many difficulties
with DAs under Multifinder, running in the DAHandler partition. The problems
seem related to memory management:
 - Cut and paste of large clipboards (4K on a 1M Mac+) is impossible.
 - NewPtr and NewHandle do not always return nil when the memory is not
available (!).

The same DAs have been tested running in the partition of a simple DA shell
application (by opening the DA with the option key down). In this setup, all
memory related problems disappear.

   Is this a bug in the DAHandler?

       Daniel Ranson
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