--- Matthew Bevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've >recently run into troubles with globals - far after > I had the chance to > correct my mistake early on. Now I have several > thousand lines I need to go > back and re-tweak to not use globals. Damn system > callback functions...
That's my point, that's why I think it could be better to try to do some type of "encapsulation" albeit in the form of a struct (Mat), .h files (Lois), preferences-struct (you).... whatever. > > But besides from that I seem to recall that > globals > > reside in the [limited] dynamic memory heap > throughout > > the app-life, something one should try to avoid. > Or > > did I just make this one up.....? > > I had thought globals were a resource in an > application (a template, if you > will) that was loaded into dynamic memory to be > modified. You may be able to > dis-assemble some of your code to find out exactly > where it's loaded to (an > offset off of A7 or somesuch)... Like I said I'm not sure about that one, but I think I have read that someplace (even in this forum I believe). I'm sure someone here could clear up this one, it would be interesting to know :-) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
