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[In "Re: Task KILL for Amiga", Randell Jesup said:]
:
: written programs, probably.  Remember, if anyone might need to look at
: memory you allocate, use MEMF_PUBLIC - and don't allocate such things as
: globals/statics in your program, since it may not be public.  That will at
: least help a little if we go to an MMU system.
:
: Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup
:
I think the reason that people don't pay more attention to MEMF_PUBLIC is
that it's never been documented precisely *which* system structures require
it.  The best answer I've heard about this is "Bitmaps and sound samples
and well, lots of others (sometimes)."


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