memory and multiple processes

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Philip Nemec (nemec++at++precious)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:35:01 -0800

In the course of fairly normal programming I came up with a variety of memory problems relating to running in multi-process mode...

The first is how to allocate user structures correctly...

The answer is pfMalloc... I thought there was a way to use new and pfMemory to be more C++ish, but I wasn't able to get anything working.

And the second I have even less of an answer for - how about deleting stuff that I point to in channel data?

I can't delete it in the APP process since that will delete it a few frames before the DRAW process is done using it (unless pfFree is smarter than I think). And I think I can flag something in the channel data that says to delete something (which I have code in the DRAW process to pay attention to and do). But is this really the right way to do things? [Right now I just leak memory since needing to delete is a rare case in my program.]

I'm hoping this at least saves people some trouble, and would even like to get some of these issues straightned out in my head and hopefully some other people's as well...

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