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   Message 990 of 2,978   
   Marco van de Voort to L D Blake   
   Re: FPC Questions   
   27 Sep 04 10:51:56   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-09-27, L D Blake  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:57:46 +0000 (UTC), Marco van de Voort <   
   arcov@stack.nl>   
   > 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.   
      
   See the second point of the summary.   
      
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