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- From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Program Fragmenting Memory
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.202102.29394@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:21:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug9.023203.7467@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <rwm.713818561@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- In article <rwm.713818561@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond) writes:
- >stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
- >>I've been trying to track this problem down for two days now, so I ask here in
- >>case it has to do with something outside my code.
- >
- > Do you by any chance use Amigados Local environment variables? I've myself
- >been trying to track down a fragmentation problem in my own software, and I
- >can't find any of my own memory allocations that are causing the problem.
- >
- > I haven't really spent a lot of time on it yet, so I'm not sure, but I'm
- >getting a little curious about whether or not local environment variables
- >are Free()'d when the process ends (IE: there is memory left over after I
- >exit the program).
- >
- I haven't investigated how environment variables are handled by 2.0,
- but under 1.3 they were simply stored as files in the ENV: directory. The
- ENV: directory is assigned to reside in the ram disk when the system is boot.
-
- >getting a little curious about whether or not local environment variables
- >are Free()'d when the process ends (IE: there is memory left over after I
-
- Haven't the slightest idea, but you could check by doing a directory
- listing of the ENV: directory. The files are named after the environment
- variables.
-
- jeff
-