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Chapter 1 - Introduction to Memory Management / Memory Management Reference

Setting Up the Application Heap
The Operating System automatically initializes your application's heap when your application is launched. To help prevent heap fragmentation, you should call the procedures in this section before you allocate any blocks of memory in your heap.
Use the MaxApplZone procedure to extend the application heap zone to the application heap limit so that the Memory Manager does not do so gradually as memory requests require. Use the MoreMasters procedure to preallocate enough blocks of master pointers so that the Memory Manager never needs to allocate new master pointer blocks for you.

Subtopics

MaxApplZone

MoreMasters

GetApplLimit

SetApplLimit

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