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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: overlaying
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:46:37 -0500
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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Anthony.Appleyard wrote:
> 
> How can I tell the DPMI server e.g. that "this program will not call function
> int* Han_Solo(int,FILE*,float(int,char)) again, swop that function out now if
> you need spare space."?

I don't think you can.  However, you don't need to.  If the DPMI server
needs to page out memory, and the page containing that function is the
one that it decides to page out, then it will page it out, or it may
page out some other unused function.  It's all totally transparent.

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