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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Memory Types???
Message-ID: <8804200521.AA24096@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 20 Apr 88 05:21:34 GMT
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:>	ptr = AllocMem(bytes, MEMF_PUBLIC);
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:Correct me if I am wrong, but the word I heard was that MEMF_PUBLIC was
:only for memory that you would want to share with other tasks. Not for
:private memory that you wanted for yourself. 
:
:--Chuck McManis

	Exactly right, but then there is the matter of what memory
should be public and what should not.  Since the flag was never 
seriously described, NOBODY uses it correctly, and thus the flag is useless.

	So it really doesn't matter.  But I always use MEMF_PUBLIC because
it covers all possible cases (in the vapor meaning of the term).  If C-A
ever gets serious about it, they will have to add a new flag bit.

				-Matt