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From: hans@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Hans Buurman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Malloc on 2.5 Meg 1040stf - help needed
Summary: gemdos bug ?
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Date: 23 Dec 89 00:25:56 GMT
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I think I'll need help on this one...
I recently upgraded my 1040 stf to 2.5 Mb using a kit by Weide
(although this is not a hardware problem). I found that one of
the programs I use intensively (turbo c linker) won't make full
use of the extra memory. The reason is the following:

This linker uses gemdos call 0x48 (Malloc) at least twice for
each file read. It appears that this call can only be issued
some 300 times, after which it fails, regardless of the amount
of free memory. This problem does not occur on a Mega ST !
Maybe it is only present in early gemdos versions ? (I bought
the 1040stf in March, 1987).

Right now, my workaround is to link from the desktop, without
ramdisk, turbodos, etc. I'm cooperating in a large project,
so I really could use a solution. Can anybody help me ?

Anyway, merry Chistmas everybody !

	Hans

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