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  3. December 2001

RE: Teraspace memory allocation

Simon,

Just curious...  Did they remove the 16MB limit for *USRSPC, yet?  If so, in
what release?

jt

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
| Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:09 PM
|
| Secondly, I think there is a fundamental flaw in your design.  You should
| not be exposing the TS address as the magic cookie cum handle.  Your
| teraspace service program should allocate a chunk of static
| storage (array,
| user space, user index, whatever) and your new() function should store the
| TS pointer in the array and return a handle that can be used by destroy()
| and any other TS functions to locate the pointer in the static storage.
| That way you don't expose the implementation, you don't have to
| stuff about
| with pointer conversions, and the handle can be a data type supported by
| all HLLs.

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