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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CloseFonts() problems
Message-ID: <10119@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 Dec 88 09:45:19 GMT
References: <3599@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <10097@well.UUCP> <5783@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <5783@polya.Stanford.EDU> aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>In article <10097@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>	AllocMem (4000000000L, NULL);
>>
>>	This will always fail [ ... ]
>
>Just in case that request should succeed, you should do
>
>        if (tmp = AllocMem(4000000000L, NULL)) FreeMem (tmp, NULL)
>
>While you're dreaming, you might as well do it all the way!

	May as well do it right, too:

	if (tmp = AllocMem (4000000000L, NULL)) {
		puts ("Don't worry, you have *plenty* of memory.");
		FreeMem (tmp, 4000000000L);
	}	/* You forgot ^^^^^^^^^^^ that */

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