size could be roughly double, so if we allow 4MB for the executable
we will have plenty of room for expansion.
- Thus we set the malloc heap base to 20MB. Since Emacs now leaves
+ Thus we would like to set the malloc heap base to 20MB. However,
+ Win95 refuses to allocate the heap starting at this address, so we
+ set the base to 27MB to make it happy. Since Emacs now leaves
28 bits available for pointers, this lets us use the remainder of
- the region below the 256MB line for our malloc arena - 236MB is
- still a pretty decent arena to play in! */
+ the region below the 256MB line for our malloc arena - 229MB is
+ still a pretty decent arena to play in! */
- unsigned long base = 0x01400000; /* 20MB */
+ unsigned long base = 0x01B00000; /* 27MB */
unsigned long end = 1 << VALBITS; /* 256MB */
+ void *ptr = NULL;
- reserved_heap_size = end - base;
-
- return VirtualAlloc ((void *) base,
- get_reserved_heap_size (),
- MEM_RESERVE,
- PAGE_NOACCESS);
+#ifdef NTHEAP_PROBE_BASE
+ while (!ptr && (base < end))
+ {
+#endif
+ reserved_heap_size = end - base;
+ ptr = VirtualAlloc ((void *) base,
+ get_reserved_heap_size (),
+ MEM_RESERVE,
+ PAGE_NOACCESS);
+#ifdef NTHEAP_PROBE_BASE
+ base += 0x00100000; /* 1MB increment */
+ }
+#endif
+ return ptr;
}