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From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt)
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Subject: Re: Ptrs, Handles, & Stuff
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Date: 22 Feb 89 19:14:15 GMT
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In article <1152@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>truth before.  The question is:  When I do a _NewHandle or _NewPtr, is
>the result (1) locked (2) unpurgable ?  Further, the various size change
...
>worked.  The book says very little about the defaults, infact, the promotion
>IM says NOTHING about the defaults...
         ???????
Odd, but on page 32 of the Memory Manager chapter of my promotional IM it
says (about NewHandle()):

    The new block will be unlocked and unpurgeable.

In fact, the sentence erroneously appears twice.  As for pointers, their
blocks are, by definition, immobile (and unpurgeable).

Jonathan


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