[fpc-pascal]MaxAvail in Win32 systems

[Peter Vreman]

> I write a program like database, you know:
> Person = record
>            name: string[30];
>             .......
>            phone: string[10];
>           end;
>   and I am using dynamic list.
> When program starts I read all records to memory (BTW: it is good idea?) and
> I want to check it is enough memory to load next record:
> if MaxAvail >= SizeOf(Person^.desc) then ...
>
> Please tell me how its work in Win32 because I create file about 400 MB
> and all record was loaded sucessfully (PC with 64 MB physical RAM and 600 MB
> virtual memory). I know it's using virtual memory ...

The Heap will grow when needed. Just check the Heapsize value and you'll
see that it increases