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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CloseFonts() problems
Message-ID: <10191@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 89 06:51:45 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <14370@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <3226@amiga.UUCP| jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>|Hold on, here, fellas.  Is there a real reason to flush the font?  This thread
>|started when some guy thought the memory for an unused font was unavailable.
>
>|This isn't so that your customers feel that you've returned all your memory,
>|is it?  Or maybe to satisfy the BKDC rules or something.
>
>That's definitely THE main reason most third parties do the HUGE AllocMem,
>as the last thing before closing shop.
>
	Well, *I* never do that.  I suspect it's done by developers to see
if their code returned all the memory it allocted properly.

	Checking to see if everything get returned can be a bit of a pain,
particularly if you're working out of VD0: (which is not to slander VD0:).
My test cycle is:  avail, <program>, avail.  If the program opened
previously unopened libraries, then I do another <program>,avail cycle and
check the numbers.  In VD0:, this can be a problem, because it likes to free
up memory "every so often".  Thus, I often find myself saying "dir >NIL: :
OPT A" to try and make it happen more often so that the avail numbers don't
say I have more free memory that I started with.

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