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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Subject: Re: Can someone explain this?
Message-ID: <820@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 13:40:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 13:40:07 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 16:26:41 EDT
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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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.

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