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From: hintz@quando.UUCP (Stefan Hintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Malloc on 2.5 Meg 1040stf - help needed
Keywords: Malloc,Turbo C Linker,FOLDR100.PRG
Message-ID: <1291@quando.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 14:46:16 GMT
References: <1055@dutrun.UUCP>
Reply-To: hintz@quando.UUCP (Stefan Hintz)
Organization: Quantum GmbH, Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <1055@dutrun.UUCP> hans@duttnph.UUCP (Hans Buurman) writes:

>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).

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I had this Malloc-Problem too, even with a Mega ST2 .
The solution was to put a FOLDR300.PRG into the AUTO-folder.



I hope this will help you.

	Stefan Hintz, Dortmund, WestGermany.

	hintz@quando.unido.UUCP (Stefan Hintz)