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Inside Macintosh: Memory /
Chapter 4 - Memory Management Utilities / Memory Management Utilities Reference
Routines / Manipulating the Processor Caches

FlushDataCache

You can use the FlushDataCache procedure to flush the data cache.

PROCEDURE FlushDataCache;
DESCRIPTION
The FlushDataCache procedure flushes the current contents of the data cache. Because flushing this cache degrades performance of the CPU, you should call this routine only when absolutely necessary. See "Processor Caches" beginning on page 4-8 for details on when to call this procedure.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION
The trap macro and routine selector for FlushDataCache are
Trap macroSelector
_HWPriv$0003

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3 JUL 1996