Re: [MI400] Space pointers

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> The heap instructions were not a dead end. It all worked.   Why will the
> over allocation method not work for you ?   Will not the programmers have
to
> call the allocate and deallocate functions that call down to the mi heap
> instructions ?

Well, I'm thinking that they might do something stupid like:

C                alloc        size        myPtr
C**              add stuff to the allocated storage
C                eval         newPtr = swMemExpand( myPtr:
C
bytesToInsert:
C
insertAtOffset)

(where swMemExpand() is one of my routines)

So if they didn't use my routine to create the initial allocation, the
header data would be missing. I really don't want to force use of the
service program to be an all or nothing proposition. Ideally, they should be
able to freely mix my memory routines with the native stuff.


John Taylor