Re: [MiNT] Alt Ram Troubles - 2

[Adam Klobukowski <atari@gabo.pl>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:27:09 +0200 (CEST)
Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> > > The maxmem parameter was set around 4096Kbytes.  I wouldn't
> > > think that this parameter would exhibit the effect
> >
> > Well, it does, and the reason's quite simple: If you limit the
> > memory available for programs via MAXMEM, Malloc(-1) will of
> > course report only that amount of memory the process is allowed to
> > allocate, not what is actually free in the system.
> 
> As a side note, MAXMEM is obsoleted. Thomas introduced the much better
> INITIALMEM setting that limit the size of the stacksegment on Pexec()
> (it default to 4MB).

Why not remove it from 1.16a? (and add a warning note if it is present
in mint.cnf)

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Adam Klobukowski
atari@gabo.pl