Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!julie!mcr
From: mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: memalign (can it be simulated?)
Message-ID: <0196.AA0196@julie>
Date: 26 Jan 89 19:13:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: julie.0196.AA0196
Reply-To: <0164.AA0164@julie>
Distribution: world
Organization: Sandleman Software Works' Debugging Department, Ottawa, ON
Lines: 35
Summary: yes

>  The normal AllocMem is fine, I DO know the block size, but it wont
>guarantee a 4K boundary. I have thought about AllocMem'ing 8K, taking the
>middle 4K chunk and returning the rest, but I am not sure if this will
>work. Does AllocMem keep any information of blocks that are in use? If
>so, can I do things in a revision-independant way? Or do I have to
>walk to memory lists myself? (Worse solution.)

  The good news is that Dave Thomas sent me a message to tell me that
AllocMem does no tracking of in use blocks. AllocMem'ing 8K will work!
Wow! _Personal_ replies!  8-) :-) 8^)...







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