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Article #10995Re: WB 1.4 (actually Amiga & MMU)
From: Rick Sterling QA
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 13:43
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 13:43
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In article <13592@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
> This seems like the right place to ask this question:
>
> Does anyone use the AllocRemember() and FreeRemember() calls documented in the
> Addison-Wesley 'Intuition Reference Manual', pp 211-214? If not, why not?
>
> The reason I ask is that I have seen comments on UseNet and in magazine
> articles that say AmigaDOS does not have any resource tracking and that lack
> is a big problem. Perhaps those calls don't work or perhaps they don't solve
> the problem that needs to be solved. I'd like to know.
>
> Dana "I give up on elaborate signatures"
I use these calls quite extensively in test software here at CBM and they work
quite well, thankyou ;-)
Resource tracking involves quite a bit more work than these memory allocation
/deallocation routines can provide.
- Rick -
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!sterling From: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: WB 1.4 (actually Amiga & MMU) Message-ID: <5705@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 17 Jan 89 13:43:39 GMT References: <1656@ardent.UUCP> <6782@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <13592@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) Distribution: na Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 26