Oh what's in a number....480000000 vs 536870912. LOL
On 11/1/2013 4:28 PM, Richard Kaye wrote:
VFP was designed in an era when the operating system couldn't use more than 2GB of RAM. I forget where I saw this (could have been Christof, could have been wOOdy) but I long ago switched to this: SYS(3050,1,480000000) SYS(3050,2,480000000) Keep it simple... :-) -- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 4:20 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: VFP9SP2 on Win7 error trying to maximize memory Had one user's WIn7 Pro machine (8GB RAM) fail on this code: SYS(3050,1,MIN(536870912, VAL(SYS(3050,1,0)))) SYS(3050,2,MIN(536870912, VAL(SYS(3050,1,0)))) ...because the MIN(..) arg returned -1351876608. Looks like I should add a ABS(..) around the whole thing to avoid the error. I should update the Fox Wiki too as I got the code from there. Heads up in case you use the same code... -- Mike Babcock, MCP
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