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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIGS
- #57: Preventing Memory Compacting and Purging
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- Written by: Dave Lyons July 1989
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- This Technical Note discusses a flag byte at location $E100CB that debugging
- utilities can use to temporarily prevent the Memory Manager from moving or
- purging memory.
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- If the byte at location $E100CB is non-zero, the Memory Manager will not move
- any memory blocks, and it will not purge any blocks while trying to allocate
- memory (PurgeHandle and PurgeAll will still purge blocks).
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- Debugging utilities may temporarily increment this byte to allocate memory in
- situations when it is not safe for existing memory blocks to be moved or
- purged.
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- This flag byte is for use only by debugging aids and System Software. It
- would be mind-numbingly stupid for an application to use this flag instead of
- using HLock and HUnlock, since the advantages of a Memory Manager architecture
- with relocatable blocks would be lost.