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   Message 991 of 2,978   
   Marco van de Voort to VBDis   
   Re: FPC Questions   
   27 Sep 04 11:48:26   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-09-26, VBDis  wrote:   
   > code, static data and stack), and the unusable area below the base address of   
   > your application, typically $400000 bytes.   
   >   
   > The remaining address space is usable for the heap. In this area a DOS (real   
   > mode) like memory managment is possible, with all the problems of largest   
   > memory block vs. total memory available etc. Perhaps FPC allows you to write   
   > your own memory manager for that address space, as is possible with Delphi?   
      
   FPC allows to fully substitute the memory manager. This feature is often used   
   even, since when linking to GCC code, memory management is changed to use C   
   allocation routines, to avoid problems with two mem allocators.   
      
   I btw agree with all your points in this discussion.   
      
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