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/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
