Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Newsgroups: net.micro.6809 Subject: Re: Can someone explain this? Message-ID: <820@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 13:40:07 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.820 Posted: Sun Sep 29 13:40:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 16:26:41 EDT References: <279@sask.UUCP> Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Distribution: net Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto Lines: 31 Summary: Might be WPII In article <279@sask.UUCP> mcdonald@sask.UUCP (Shane McDonald) writes: >Can someone explain this to me? I have a CoCo II running >OS9 with WordPak II installed. I compiled a long C program, >and the size of the program ended up being about 5/8 the >size of my free memory. But, when I tried to run the program, >I got an error message saying that there wasn't enough memory. >Oh, darn, I thought. That's when I discovered that the program >was only about 5/8 the size of my memory, not including, of course, >memory used for the stack. Perplexed, I decided to see if I >could load the program into memory. It loaded fine, and told >me I still had about 20K of memory left. So, I tried to run >it now. It ran fine with no memory problems. Can someone >explain why I had to load it into memory first? >-- >Shane McDonald >(ihnp4!sask!mcdonald) I don't know if you've had an answer yet, but I've noticed that ever since I started using WordPak II, with the version 3 driver kit, I've had memory de-allocation problems. Try re-booting the system and then running the program. Cheers! -- Jim O. BIX: jimomura Compuserve 72205,541 MTS at WU: GKL6 -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura