Re: Still alive? Memory. edm2?

From	"Andi B." <andi.b@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
Subject	Re: Still alive? Memory. edm2?
Date	2025-02-07 12:38 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Iron Spring Software schrieb:
> 1. Is anyone still reading this NG?

Yes. Occasionally.

> 
> 2. I was curious about OS/2 memory allocation (DosAllocMem), and too 
> lazy to see if the information I want is in the redbooks, which probably 
> don't reflect the current status of ArcaOS anyway.
> 
> At any rate I recalled that each call to DosAlloc allocates 64K (65536) 
> bytes, and my question was whether or not there was any overhead in the 
> allocated memory. I write a Q+D program that made two allocations of one 
> byte each, followed by two allocations of 64K, and in all cases the 
> addresses of the allocated memory were 64K apart, so no overhead.
> 

I also remember the 64k block since a long time. But see Daves answer 
for details.

> [probably y'all knew this already]
> 
> 3. I was going to make a note on the talk page for DosAllocMem page in 
> the edm2 wiki to help out any other clueless people who might happen 
> along, but either talk isn't implemented or I need to sign on because I 
> got a message something like "unable to handle this request" when I 
> clicked talk.

Just checked some edm2 pages and the look very different from what I 
remember. Guess the last server/software migration didn't work well or 
is still in progress or no one has time to take care ...

But trac and login there works.

Andi

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