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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MEMF_PHYSICAL?
Message-ID: <8905181642.AA07593@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 May 89 16:42:21 GMT
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:For those clamoring for a MEMF_PHYSICAL memory requirements flag -- is
:this not what MEMF_PUBLIC really is?  The RKM isn't so clear, but the
:"Amiga Programmer's Handbook" (Sybex) describes the flag as "memory
:which can not be swapped out, mapped or otherwise made
:nonaddressable."  In other words, add to <exec/memory.h>:

	MEMF_PUBLIC is so badly defined that most people use it incorrectly...
either that or allocate all of their memory MEMF_PUBLIC.  It has essentially
become a random flag and as such should be phased out (with the bit eternally
reserved to mean nothing).

					-Matt