Richard Owlett (21.08. 14:10):

> I was thinking/musing. Yes, that does get me in trouble.
>
> Are there any public domain or GPL'd Forth sources for memory test on
> Windows machines.
>
> I'm not looking for any super performance. I'm looking for educationally
> informative examples of how you deal with covering much/most/all of
> *physical* memory when you have no prior knowledge of where you program
> will operate from nor what else may be using memory.

As a data point, there is a tool memtest86 (IIRC) out there, which
can be booted into *instead of* allowing any kind of real operating
system setting up layers between you and the memory. I'd be surprised,
if you could actually access a given physical address, once virtual
memory is set up.

>
> And by the devious paths my mind operates on, I asked "how can I
> determine what files in a FAT32 system are fragmented?" and related
> questions. Once again efficiency is not the measure.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/fsctl_get_retrieval_pointers.asp

s.

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