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Ulm's Oberon Library:
SysMemParams


NAME

SysMemParams - system-dependent constants for SysStorage

SYNOPSIS

On SPARC processors:
CONST minAlignment = 8;

On I386 processors:

CONST minAlignment = 4;

DESCRIPTION

SysMemParams provides all system-dependent constants that allow to keep SysStorage portable:

minAlignment
specifies the minimal alignment that is required for allocated areas for unknown types. This is the maximum of all minimal alignments of all Oberon type representations.

SEE ALSO

Memory
allows to retrieve the page size
SysStorage
portable storage allocator with garbage collection
Types
more constants that depend on the local architecture

Edited by: borchert, last change: 2005/08/25, revision: 1.1, converted to HTML: 2005/08/25

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