Re: Memory allocation

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From: Bruce Dawson
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1989 21:16

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     The stack is _not_ used as the heap on the Amiga.  Local variables,
including arrays are allocated on the stack.  mallocs, AllocMem()s etc. are
allocated out of the free memory 'heap', which includes all memory that has not
already been allocated.  Since stack memory has already been allocated, it
won't be used by one of these calls.  However, since the example program was
declaring an array on the stack, it would indeed chew up stack space at an
enormous rate.

.Bruce.

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From: a464@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dawson)
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Subject: Re: Memory allocation
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Date: 30 Dec 89 21:16:09 GMT
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