Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/08/30/16:00:43
> > ..., except that DJ says it isn't supposed to work this way;
> > _go32_dpmi_remaining_physical_memory() is supposed to track
> > allocations.
>
> Huh? If the allocation only effectively allocates virtual memory, then
> a function named ...remaining_physical_memory should ignore anything
> that is not yet occupying physical memory. Anything else would disobey
> the principle of least astonishment.
Now *I* am confused. The original intent of this function was to see
how much space one could alloc before swapping happened. What's the
best definition for this after swapping everything out for a spawn?
What *should* it mean?
DJ
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