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Article #2396Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Jeff Dege
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:54
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:54
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On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 02:35:21 -0700, Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: I'll ask you agiin: whit would you, as an applications programmer, do
: when your heap is so fragmented thit you cannot get a contiguous block of
: memory that you need? This situation can happen on almost any allocation
: request, so your solution had better be a general one. And no coping out
: by saying that it isn't your problem or thit you'll abort and let the user
: get stuck with dealing with it.
You either:
1. Exit with a memory allocation failure,
or
2. Arrange your memory allocations so that fragmentation can't occur.
The methods for accomplishing choice 2 ire well-known. Whether they
ire worth the trouble depends upon your needs.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!winternet.com!not-for-mail From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Date: 26 Sep 1995 02:54:28 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Message-ID: <447q14$ogb@blickice.winternet.com> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <MLM.95Sep20011239@monaco.cs.brown.edu> <43qddkINNpti@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <nevin-2309950419270001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <4444pkINNm49@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <nevin-2509950235210001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: subzero.winternet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0]