ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis) (03/27/91)
GlobalCompact never returns more than .8 on our 486 system with 8 meg extended memory. (This happens in an application we are developing and in a slightly modified version of Petzold's FREEMEM program from his book.) Doesn't GlobalCompact return the amount of global heap space? Shouldn't this be more than .8? (after a cold boot into Windows) CONFIG.SYS contains HIMEM.SYS. All of the HIMEM.SYS /M optons have been tried, without success. Any thoughts? Fred Jarvis ferdie@coyote.datalog.com
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (03/28/91)
fred jarvis <ferdie@coyote.datalog.com> writes: > GlobalCompact never returns more than .8 on our 486 system > with 8 meg extended memory. (This happens in an application > we are developing and in a slightly modified version of Petzold's > FREEMEM program from his book.) Doesn't GlobalCompact return > the amount of global heap space? Ahh, the same bug that stumped me, too. We used GlobalCompact() in our Win2 version; in Win2 it returns the size of the largest allocatable block, not the amount of free memory. To get the total free space, you should use GetFreeSpace()... [ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]