[Coco] OS9 Process space questions

[Bob Devries]

Memory can be requested by the programme itself using a system call.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Fitch" <pfitchjr at bellsouth.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: [Coco] OS9 Process space questions


> Heres my question.  When running any program, OS9 assigns the program a
> maximum of 64k to run in.  Is it always 64k, or assigned in 8k chunks?  Is
> it dynamic?
>
> ie, a program is started with X memory, or the minimum memory it will fit
> in (not sure which).  After startup, the program determines that 
> additional
> memory is required.
>
> Are more blocks allocated on the fly, or is the memory request made only 
> at
> startup, ala Copy #24k?
>
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