From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Memory hoarding
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 08:57:23 +0200
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Ghalos wrote:

> When my game starts up I am thinking of grabbing all the available memory I
> can but one thing I need to is what is the best way of doing this?  I seem
> to remember from experiments that the value returned by the maximum block
> size function is different from what I could actually allocate by trial and
> error. Why is that?

Because, besides the largest block, there are smaller blocks which you 
can use.

I think Chapter 15 of the FAQ explains some of the subtle aspects of
memory usage in the DJGPP environment.  If, after reading that, something 
is still unclear, please ask specific questions.