From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT foobar DOT co DOT uk DOT chocolat>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP OS Compatability WAS:detecting dpmi
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:24:01 +0100
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In article <5jfilc$p5h AT news DOT cableinet DOT net>, Jason Barstow
<jb3207 AT eclipse DOT co DOT uk> writes
>I'm currently working on a game (like many people I think). This does all the
>usual stuff - hooks keyboard interrupt; uses VESA1.2/2.0; does sound via
>Soundblaster; uses NEARPTRS (optional).

One thing to be careful of is using malloc and its friends with the
default malloc library. On Win95 I see huge swapfiles created by this
under JED and DISPLAY (20Mbytes with ease). On a nearly full drive this
will crash the program responsible (scattering unclosed files through
the file system if you are unlucky like me ;)
I'd mind less if I did not have enough real ram for almost any possible
program!

Of course this should not affect games (where you should do memory
management yourself)

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