>>Seems FD-HIMEM can't do a MERGE with others free blocks, even the >>MS-HIMEM did the job well. My friend told me how but sorry I'm not >>allow to tell details, Wow. 'I'm not allowed to tell the details...' seems to suggest that's it's some ingenious (patent pending) technology art. In fact it's maybe 30 lines missing (or even just doing merge at the right time and move a couple of lines somewhere else)
no big deal, it just wasn't reported so far >>but you should know how to fix, and you need to >>fix this, there no 'you should do this' 'you should do that' unless you PAY for it. This is OUR FREE TIME, and it's entirely up to us how to spend it maybe 'Dear Michael would you be please so kind to fix this bug in your free time just for the joy of doing it; I would be ethernally thankful' works better >>for the sake of the FreeDOS or the whole DOS community. that's certainly overestimating the bugs size. maybe 'for the sake of the DOOM playing community' ? > HIMEM does merge blocks, as I already indicated, although it's suboptimal > in its behavior. Further, I have not worked a great deal on that part of > the code. What is there still contains quite a bit of original code > inherited from the original basic memory manager development going back ten > years to long-gone developers. this was touched by me not soo long ago, and free memory merging actually done by me (but only on alloc, not on 'report largest region'; looks like I overlooked something. that happens ;) btw: it looks to me as if japeth wrote a tiny program to produce the bug; it's always helpful for maintainers if they get this program/source/description how to reproduce, so the time to reproduce the bug (and thereby time spend on the problem) is significant reduced, and often motivation to work on it highly enhanced Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
