Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Jos Backus]

For your collective amusement, here's a post that talks about how OS/2 handles
memory allocation. DosAllocMem() has a flags argument, and one of the flags
requests the OS to actually commit the memory.

    http://w3.hethmon.com/os2isp/1998/Apr/Msgs/l2w96957.html

    http://www.stidolph.com/os2api/Dos/DosAllocMem.html

So even IBM must have thought it not to be such a bad idea.

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