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Re: 2.4 Official -- memory stuff

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Jul 07, 2003
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On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:05:13PM -0700, Mike Nelson wrote:
> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
> I believe this problem is insoluble in Eu 2.4 under Win 95/98/Me--the
> problem is that heaps do not grow beyond their initial size and you can get
> out of memory conditions when the heap is gone, even if you have plenty of
> physical RAM--the OS can't allocate it. This issue does not occur in Win
> NT/2000/XP --these can grow heaps beyond initial size.
> 
<snip> 

Well, how does the Watcom heap manager do it then? If we figure that out then
you could just mimic or emulate that for 2.4/2.5.

jbrown

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