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From: franka@mentor.com (Frank A. Adrian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  JLRU
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.000315.3694@mentor.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 00:03:15 GMT
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In article <9002071439.AA03945@richter.mit.edu> krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
>... Either the program will refuse to start, or it will
>grab the maximum amount of disk space it could use and then start
>and run to completion.

Actually, it grabs the amount of disk space necessary for the text
segment, the static data objects, and the stack.  Storage for dy-
namically allocated objects (via malloc, etc.) is allocated as
needed.  This doesn't help much for FORTRAN common blocks, though.
-- 

Frank A. Adrian
Mentor Graphics, Inc.
franka@mntgfx.com