Résumé :
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This book describes the parts of the Macintosh Opearting System that allow you to directly allocate,release,or otherwise manipulate memory.Everyone who programs Macintosh computers should read this book.Inside Macintosh:Memory shows in detail how your application can manage the memory partition it is allocated and perform other memory-related operations.it also provides a complete technical reference for the Memory Manager,the Virtual Memory Manager,and other memory-related utilities provided by the system software.With this book,you'll learn how to: -set up your application heap at launch time, -allocate relocatable and nonrelocatable blocks of memory in your application heap, -avoid heap fragmentation caused by blocks of memory that cannot move, -avoid using dangling pointers and invalid handles, -allocate memory outside your application heap, -be compatible with virtual memory, -avoid using stale data or instructions in the CPU caches.To use this book,you need to be familiar with the general structure of a Macintosh application.This topic is discussed at lengt in Inside Macintosh:Overview.
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