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   Message 993 of 2,978   
   Marco van de Voort to Glenn Someone   
   Re: FPC Questions   
   27 Sep 04 12:25:06   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-09-24, Glenn Someone    
   wrote:   
      
   >>Note that this is unsafe in any TP compatible, one should use maxavail,   
   >>otherwise heapfragmentation comes into play. (the size may be free, but   
   fragmented in multiple   
   >>small blocks. The new will still fail that way)   
      
   > Maxavail has the same problem as Memavail, that being it only works in   
   > the context of the allocated heap upon startup.   
      
   I know (in FPC context), but that piece of code of yours was wrong, even   
   with in BP.   
      
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