Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!sterling
From: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: WB 1.4 (actually Amiga & MMU)
Message-ID: <5705@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 13:43:39 GMT
References: <1656@ardent.UUCP> <6782@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <13592@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA)
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In article <13592@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
> This seems like the right place to ask this question:
> 
> Does anyone use the AllocRemember() and FreeRemember() calls documented in the
> Addison-Wesley 'Intuition Reference Manual', pp 211-214?  If not, why not?
> 
> The reason I ask is that I have seen comments on UseNet and in magazine 
> articles that say AmigaDOS does not have any resource tracking and that lack
> is a big problem.  Perhaps those calls don't work or perhaps they don't solve
> the problem that needs to be solved.  I'd like to know.
> 
> Dana             "I give up on elaborate signatures"

I use these calls quite extensively in test software here at CBM and they work
quite well, thankyou ;-) 

Resource tracking involves quite a bit more work than these memory allocation
/deallocation routines can provide.

 - Rick -

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