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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2001 19:32:51 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Addressing Layout in 1.3.x
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In-Reply-To:	<5.1.0.14.2.20010531155342.03889f98@ks.teknowledge.com>; from rrschulz@cris.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:01:21PM -0700

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:01:21PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>OK. That is pretty much what I expected, but an XSB emulator hacker out 
>there was having problems that seemed like the could possibly have been 
>related to addressing issues of this sort, so I said I'd investigate. I 
>guess that the only reason I had any suspicion was some vague hunch based 
>on the existence of the "heap_chunk_in_mb" registry entry--perhaps just 
>it's granularity.

That is just a setting which controls how much memory to allocate via
VirtualAlloc.

It's certainly possible that Cygwin is using new regions of memory in
newer versions but nothing in the use falls outside of the standard
Win32 API methods for doing this.

cgf

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