Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:11:35 -0800 From: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Message-ID: <20010228171135.E66723@lizzy.bugworks.com> In-Reply-To: <200102250757.f1P7vR625246@guild.plethora.net>; from seebs@plethora.net on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:57:05AM -0600 References: <200102250745.f1P7jPd02969@harmony.village.org> <200102250757.f1P7vR625246@guild.plethora.net>
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For your collective amusement, here's a post that talks about how OS/2 handles
memory allocation. DosAllocMem() has a flags argument, and one of the flags
requests the OS to actually commit the memory.
http://w3.hethmon.com/os2isp/1998/Apr/Msgs/l2w96957.html
http://www.stidolph.com/os2api/Dos/DosAllocMem.html
So even IBM must have thought it not to be such a bad idea.
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