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matthey · 26 July 2010, 05:15

The Amiga built in memory allocation functions are more friendly. They handle 0 bytes just fine. It wouldn't be that difficult to switch to them. exec/AllocVec() is especially easy to use. It tracks the size of the allocation making it easier to use than exec/AllocMem().

It's probably more polite to allocate without the MEMF_FAST flag to allow for users with no fast ram and that run out of fast mem. Just set MEMF_CLEAR if you want the memory cleared or MEMF_ANY (0L) if you don't need it cleared.

26 July 2010, 05:15	#8
matthey Banned Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,284	The Amiga built in memory allocation functions are more friendly. They handle 0 bytes just fine. It wouldn't be that difficult to switch to them. exec/AllocVec() is especially easy to use. It tracks the size of the allocation making it easier to use than exec/AllocMem(). It's probably more polite to allocate without the MEMF_FAST flag to allow for users with no fast ram and that run out of fast mem. Just set MEMF_CLEAR if you want the memory cleared or MEMF_ANY (0L) if you don't need it cleared.