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Re: [MiNT] Alt Ram Troubles - 2

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).


Ciao
   ...Frank

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