Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:10:26 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Markus Malmgren <maad AT hem DOT passagen DOT se>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The best way to allocate memory
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On 8 Oct 1996, Markus Malmgren wrote:

>  I wonder which of the follwing ways is the best to allocate memory, is it:
> malloc, calloc, __dpmi_allocate_memory or __dpmi_allocate_linear_memory?

Just use the usual C library functions `malloc' and `calloc'.  The DPMI 
functions are DJGPP-specific and you don't need them for usual 
application programming.  They should be only used for interfacing with 
special memory-mapped hardware or when you want to replace the library 
allocation functions.