On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 04:20:53PM -0700, Adam Wozniak wrote:
> I'm porting a piece of software to the Palm. It's large and complex enough that
> I don't want to muck with it if I don't have to.
>
> I need more memory for data than what's in the dynamic heap. Like 256 K more.
>
> Do I have any easy options?
OS 3.5 has a much larger dynamic heap.
> I've begun thinking about tweaking hardware registers to give myself read/write
> access to upper memory, but I don't exactly know how to tell what areas PalmOS thinks
> are in use and what areas may be empty.
There are memory unprotect calls that do what DmWrite does to access
the memory.
> (Yes, I know it's probably a bad idea, but I want to know exactly WHY it is a bad
>idea,
> and how to make it as safe as I can).
Is there a reason you need to do lots of small scattered writes so you
can't just allocate a bunch of records in a regular database and use
DmWrite (that is what I do in the similar circumstance).
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