I stand corrected.  Thanks again.  Time to go re-read that section on
memory. ;-)
-Cory

Ben Combee wrote:

> At 07:53 AM 6/20/2004, you wrote:
>>Thanks for the info Ben.  I guess that explains why local chunk ID's are
>>only UInt16's.
> 
> Actually, that's not true.  A HeapID is a UInt16, as there can't be more
> than 64K different heaps in Palm OS, but a LocalID, which identifies a
> chunk on a heap, is a UInt32.  Back in Palm OS 1.0 and 2.0, heaps weren't
> larger than 64K, and you actually had multiple storage heaps on a
> device.  With Palm OS 3.0, the storage heap was unified into one big mass,
> but the memory access limitations of the Dragonball processor required
> that the dynamic heap remain separate.
> 
> 
> -- Ben Combee, DTS technical lead, PalmSource, Inc.
>     Read "Combee on Palm OS" at http://palmos.combee.net/


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