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Article #33568Re: Clearing memory [was Re: Another great quote from Mr. Good]
From: Charles A Anderson
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1988 20:24
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1988 20:24
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This memory clearing stuff reminds me of an intresting discovery I made a
while ago, I had a small (very small) program that I wrote to test out the
assempro assembler that I had just bought, all the program did was switch
resolutions from med to low and low to med. The odd thing was, that when
I assembled it with the pc relative option on, there was no pause before
the program ran like there was when I ran the non pc-relative version.
I thought that this meant that the relocator was extremly slow, however I
have since been informed that the relocator is in actuality quite fast, and
that a possible explanation is that pc relative programs do not have memory
cleared before they are executed. Anybody got the real story???
--
Charles Anderson | People of the Earth can you hear me?
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| -Billy Thorpe, Children Of The Sun
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!bungia!datapg!questar!midgard!caa From: caa@midgard.UUCP (Charles A Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Clearing memory [was Re: Another great quote from Mr. Good] Message-ID: <456@midgard.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 20:24:37 GMT References: <1103@atari.UUCP> <19880807215637.4.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Reply-To: caa@midgard.mn.org (Charles A Anderson) Organization: The Midgard Realm, St Paul MN Lines: 17