[A83] Re: Malloc


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[A83] Re: Malloc




> Van: Kirk Meyer <kirk.meyer@colorado.edu>
> 
> Personally, it doesn't seem as though statistics would be something
people
> might want so much in C -- they would probably use BASIC for that, if
only
> on account of size. It should be noted that although areas such as
> tempswaparea can't be used for "permanent temporary" storage, they can be
> used as scratch space by any routine that doesn't archive or unarchive
> stuff.

I'll uses the tempswap area, since it will be a l-o-o-o-o-ng way till
someone implements statistics in the z88dk...

> The z88dk that I downloaded was from the sourceforge page had support for
> most of the Z80 calculators. I tried the 86 version, and it recommended a
> rather bad loading program on account of the startup code being more than
> 9kb. I couldn't figure out how to turn the startup code down either. If

I've already taken care of the 'strange loading program', by including all
possible Ti86 shell headers in the ti86_crt0 file. It was this way because
Stefano (who made the TI port, and most others) thought that it was better
to have as much as possible free mem to work with, he didn't look for any
advice here around, so he didn't know it wasn't used much...

> you've turned most of it off then that's not so bad. The code produced by
it
> didn't seem to be too efficient, but I guess that's the price you pay for
C.
> TISCO is the only thing I have found that produces pretty decent code,
but
> it's designed for 86. It only includes the startup code that is used by
the
> application, and it uses IX to address the stack, which is how a good
> programmer would consider accessing a random access stack on Z80.

Oh, yes that's also why I regret that Nuno Joao went away, at least I
couldn't track him anywhere on the internet... I even send mails to all
Nuno Joao's I could find, but nobody returned anything.

	Henk Poley



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