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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FSWrite moving memory? (was Re: Think C 4.0 questions)
Message-ID: <10302@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 90 23:10:45 GMT
References: <10193@hoptoad.uucp> <2032@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> <1990Feb13.173605.7633@intercon.com> <10268@hoptoad.uucp> <52320@bbn.COM>
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In article <10268@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>|...not sure where the FS gets the access path buffer from, but note that
>|if it were being gotten from the memory manager, PBClose would also be
>|on the list because the buffer would be deallocated then. . . .
>
>     and
>|(Actually, given that closing a desk accessory or driver can release
>|memory, I don't know why PBClose isn't on the list.  Ideas?)

In article <52320@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>I don't have my Inside Mac and Technotes etc. here, but it seems to me
>that RELEASING memory would not result in MOVING memory; I thought
>this could only happen when something needs memory and there is not a
>big enough piece available.

No, I checked this before writing the above, and DisposPtr and DisposHandle
are on the move/purge memory routine list.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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