Re: CompactMem from a CDA

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>David A Lyons <dlyons@apple.com> writes:

>>The interrupt manager incremented a flag at $E100CB to indicate that the
>>system is in an interrupted state.  CompactMem checks that flag and does
>>nothing if it's nonzero, because the system is not allowed to move memory
>>blocks at interrupt time (that is, software is allowed to assume that
>>unlocked blocks of memory move only during system calls).
>You mean if I won't be making any toolbox or GS/OS calls I don't need to
>lock a block before I use it?? I've been locking them even if I need only
>a word or something.

Uahhh ... talk about wasting time :) Man, next time read the TB ref before
ypu start programming :) *ducking*

About the CompactMem thing ... couldn't I just use the Scheduler for this?
Hmm ...not really sure about this ... it says here an app or DA would
never have to use it. Any ideas on this?

Soenke
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