From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Too many conventional blocks?!
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:13:38 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:21:41 +0300, Niko Salminen
<wolfram AT draconus DOT com> wrote:

>I tried to allocate about 32 bytes. However, the error disappeared when I
>started using a large (about 20 kB) memory block for all the cases I
>needed conventional memory. Is there a limit for how many
>_go32_dpmi_seginfo blocks I may use? (That would be pretty lame)

Actually, there _is_ a limit, but I don't know if that's what you're
hitting.  DPMI sets a maximum number of allocated DOS memory blocks--
are you checking for a "Descriptor Unavailable" error coming back?

Peter Johnson
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