Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 94 15:13:56 GMT
From:	dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil (Kent Dolan)
To:	babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Subject:	Re: bugs in exec.c et al
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)

> ..., except that DJ says it isn't supposed to work this way;
> _go32_dpmi_remaining_physical_memory() is supposed to track
> allocations.

Huh?  If the allocation only effectively allocates virtual memory, then
a function named ...remaining_physical_memory should ignore anything
that is not yet occupying physical memory.  Anything else would disobey
the principle of least astonishment.

Xanthian.
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