Hi Brian,

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:23:06 UTC, Brian Havard 
<brian.havard@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22/06/10 14:14, Paul Smedley wrote:
> > I'd like to get my OS2 specific fixes to support a newer 
> > compiler/runtime than the current EMX support.
> >
> > What is the best way to provide the patches? Source file by source 
> > file to make review easier, or is one larger patch OK?
> >
> > Should I open a ticket for this or post the patches to the group?
> >   
> 
> The normal approach is one post/patch per logical issue with an
> explanation of what the patch does.

OK first one - attempt to allocate shared memory in High Memory Area 
(ie above 512mb) by specifying OBJ_ANY flag to avoid exhausting low 
memory, if this call fails (due to old kernel that doesn't support the
call), then revert to using low memory.

--- \dev\apr-1.4.2-o\shmem\os2\shm.c	2006-08-03 19:40:30.000000000 
+0845
+++ \dev\apr-1.4.2\shmem\os2\shm.c	2010-07-12 19:24:54.000000000 +0845
@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@
         flags |= OBJ_GETTABLE;
     }
 
-    rc = DosAllocSharedMem(&(newm->memblock), name, reqsize, flags);
+    /* First try to allocate shared memory in HMA */
+    rc = DosAllocSharedMem(&(newm->memblock), name, reqsize, flags | 
OBJ_ANY);
+
+    if (rc) {
+        rc = DosAllocSharedMem(&(newm->memblock), name, reqsize, 
flags);
+    }
 
     if (rc) {
         return APR_OS2_STATUS(rc);

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.