Lee Brown wrote:
>
> On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
>
> > There may not always BE an offscreen part of the framebuffer on
> > all targets. In particular, the targets which do not support one or more
> > DirectBuffer mappings cannot use this method.
>
> Hard to disagree with that. I guess my point is that somebody should be able
> to know what is available and use it if it is.
Sure. On the other hand, you wouldn't think of asking the system how much RAM
is available before you allocate memory on the heap. (other than for monitoring
purposes)
In fact, that is precisely what a memory manager is all about: it manages the
mapping between 'virtual memory', and 'physical memory'.
Regards, Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
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