[A83] Re: allocating uninitialized memory? + _insertmem
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[A83] Re: allocating uninitialized memory? + _insertmem
> > >My sloppy way to allocate that much ram is to create a program file
> > >of the required size and delete this when done.
> > I'm not sure why this is a 'sloppy' way to allocate memory. If your
> > program needs a fixed amount of RAM, I don't see why this shouldn't be
> > the preferred way of doing it.
> I think this is a good way to allocate memory... If everything is
> stored, it's easy to stop the application and start it again where it
> ended. Useful when programming games...
I think it is a very good way. The downsides to that are, as before
mentioned: that the VAT is changed, and programs that index or otherwise use
the VAT might need to be reset somehow after every program creation and
deletion; and that creating and deleting a program takes more clock cycles
than using something like _insertmem and _deletemem. I have had no
experience with the latter rom calls, so I use the program method and it
works fine for my purposes.
Jeff
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