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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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