From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: Proble with memory allocation...
Date: 7 May 1997 13:04:52 GMT
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John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote:
:  - You can test the available physical memory on your system by
: attempting to lock successively larger blocks of memory until
: _go32_dpmi_lock_data() fails.  This is basically what Quake does when it
: loads.

How do you know when they fail? There is no information on return value in
the docs, so presumably there's a flag somewhere?

BTW In the docs for _go32_dpmi_lock_data(), the first line of the
description is inaccurate; it's copied from the _go32_dpmi_lock_code() 
description and says the function locks an area of code (should read
`data', I think). 

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford