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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CloseFonts() problems
Message-ID: <5783@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Dec 88 15:56:36 GMT
References: <3599@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <10097@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <10097@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	AllocMem (4000000000L, NULL);
>
>	This will always fail (unless you actually happen to *have* four
>gigabytes of RAM hanging around (or if AmigaDOS/Kickstart ever goes
>virtual)).  

Just in case that request should succeed, you should do

        if (tmp = AllocMem(4000000000L, NULL)) FreeMem (tmp, NULL)

Otherwise you've just blasted away 4 gigabytes of memory without giving
it back. Tsk, tsk, Leo. 8-) While you're dreaming, you might as well
do it all the way!

Ali Ozer, aozer@NeXT.com