On Saturday, July 22, 2000 4:05:42 AM, Will Chapman wrote:
>
> "David Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:18238@palm-dev-forum...
>>
>> - When a soft reset was performed, memory which previously had been
>> allocated with FtrPtrNew() was not being automatically freed, which
>> would result in a memory leak. The same situation existed for memory
>> allocated with DmNewHandle() if the handle was not added to a
>> database before a reset occurred (a.k.a. "orphaned" chunks.)
>
> David
>
> This sort of rings a bell. We have a problem on some SPT1500 in which
> our software/conduit doesn't work consistently. We don't understand why
> but on some machines the conduit won't work properly unless we perform
> a cold-boot on the device (even after deleting the app with Menu/Delete).
>
> Someone mentioned to me that they had observed that 64K memory chunks
> where being left behind that could only be removed by a cold-reboot but I
> almost dismissed it. Your comment above made me wonder if in fact this
> could be the cause of our problems?
I don't think so. I believe the bug was introduced in OS 3.5, and therefore
doesn't show up on SPT 1500s.
Neil
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