Re: [MI400] List APIs and addresses

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Doug understood the question and Leif's answer is good enough for me. While 
tests are easy, they're only valid for the environment they're run within. This 
confirmation effectively widens the test base.

The question seems to me to help define some of the limits of the 'object 
based' architecture. In this case, the limit is still somewhere past the point 
at which I'm working. Cool.

Tom Liotta

On Sat, 20 October 2001, "Leif Svalgaard" wrote:

> From: Njål Fisketjøn <n.f@figu.no>
> > Douglas Handy wrote:
> > > I think the question was, once that attribute is set, will it
> > > auto-extend simply
> > > by virtue of writing past the current size using a based
> > > structure?  Or would
> > > you need to use the API which writes data to a user space?
> >
> > From the description in the MI Function Reference of the MODS instruction
> > I *assume* that the API behaves the same way, and thus lets you
> > write past the current size (as long as it's defined as a
> > variable length space).
>
> yes it will be extended, even if you READ from the space.
> Any access will extend if needed. API or no API.
> You cannot extend past 16Mb-256, also the extension
> may not work if you access the space from one thread and
> modify the size of the space in another thread.

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