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Article #9314Re: Chip RAM
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1988 18:08
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1988 18:08
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In article <4790@killer.UUCP> ltf@killer.UUCP (Lance Franklin) writes:
> ...just out of curiosity, does LoadSeg ever span CHIP and FAST ram when
> loading hunks?
No, LoadSeg() can't know if there are internal relative references in the
chunk so it has to treat a chunk as an atomic unit. All languages for the
Amiga will not split data declarations across chunks.
> ...with the possibility, in the future, of machines with 1 meg of CHIP
> ram, where do I go to find out the actual end of CHIP ram on any given
> machine.
The beauty of this system is that this information is never needed. If
you need to know how much chip RAM is available at a given time you can
call AvailMem(MEMF_CHIP) and if you want to know the biggest chunk of it
available you can call AvailMem(MEMF_CHIP+MEMF_LARGEST). Note that on
future machines there is no restriction that Chip ram even start at 0!
--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Chip RAM Message-ID: <60278@sun.uucp> Date: 18 Jul 88 18:08:22 GMT References: <3150@polya.Stanford.EDU> <6428@well.UUCP> <2242@sugar.UUCP> <735@applix.UUCP> <11717@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2327@antique.UUCP> <737@applix.UUCP> <2333@antique.UUCP> <4790@killer.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21