Re: [ARMini-support] Errors/freezes (longish)

  • From: Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:08:18 +0100

In message <25973a7652.Andrew-Pin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 on 26 Mar 2012 Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> However, under normal circumstances, the card reader is empty. The
>> call to SYS"XOS_FSControl" does indeed return an error, viz. 'The
>> disc drive is empty'.

>> I am wondering if when SYS"XOS_FSControl" returns an error, it
>> doesn't free the temporary memory it has claimed, which is where the
>> memory leak is coming from.

> There would be the same issue for an empty floppy drive under RISC OS
> 2.  This suggests that the memory leak is specific to the !NewIcons
> code rather than original drive-name reading routines.

It now occurs to me that, until the ARMini, RISC OS never attempted to 
display a name for a removable drive, just the drive number.


Regards

Andrew
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