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   Message 982 of 2,978   
   L D Blake to All   
   Re: FPC Questions   
   26 Sep 04 23:11:44   
   
   From: not@any.adr   
      
   On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:57:46 +0000 (UTC), Marco van de Voort    
   wrote:   
      
      
   >To summarize your problem:   
   >   
   >- you don't want to make a fixed heapmgr limit (because of sys requirements   
   > would change)   
   >- you don't want to change the main body of the code.   
   >- FPC doesn't allow to do set the heaplimit dynamically (say like use 2/3 of   
   >  avail mem), since such information provided   
   >  by DPMI is not reliable (it might be swap leading to trashing)   
   >   
   >Only solution then to get pretty much any desired behaviour is to copy the   
   >existing FPC memory manager, and modify/wrap it.   
      
   OR -- even better, change the memory allocation strategy in his code to get   
   rid of the DOS-minded memory grab.   
      
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