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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: WB 1.4 (actually Amiga & MMU)
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Date: 19 Jan 89 07:47:47 GMT
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FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) wrote:
> 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.

They only work for memory.  This is good, but:
- They don't register the memory with the OS, so you can't use them to
kill a task without defining some other protocol to allow an external
task to find the memory lists, and
- There are many other things (devices, libraries, resources, IDCMPs, etc.)
that a process can have a lock on, and these aren't registered.

So, all they really are is a convenience to the programmer, to make it
easier to clean up.  They don't do full resource tracking.
-- 
	-Colin
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Thanks for the answer, colin.

Dana  (trying out my new macro)
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