Hello Peter,

On May 20 23:17 96, Peter Fitzsimmons of 1:259/414 wrote:

 MS>> (a side effect is, that each call to DosAllocMem 
 MS>> allocates 64K and NOT the designed 4K of address 
 MS>> Space).

 PF> Don't confuse address space with allocated memory.  Even 
 PF> though the addresses increase by 64k,  they still only 
 PF> allocate 4k.

 PF> Your above statement is not wrong,  but it could be taken 
 PF> to mean that the system always allocates 64k of mem.

JFYI: OS/2 Toolkit from DevCon9 (NOT in prior versions):

[DosAllocMem - Remarks]

 Note: DosAllocMem and DosAllocSharedMem both allocate a block of memory
 of the size requested rounded to the nearest page. On OS/2 Warp, the
 system allocates a 64K object without attributes on every allocation.

 For example, for a DosAllocMem call with a size of 1, the following
occurs:

      On OS/2 Warp Connect, the system allocates a 4096-byte block of
       committed memory.
      On OS/2 Warp, the system allocates a 4096-byte block of committed
       memory plus 61440 bytes without attributes.

 WARPED!, Mario

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