From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Growing pains with DJGPP
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:18:08 -0400
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David Orme wrote:
> I managed to malloc a 128Mb array of ints, and I only have 8Mb of RAM! I was
> wondering if DJGPP double buffers or something I didn't recieve an error or
> a NULL from the malloc command.
AFAIK ,because of CWSDPMI, you can use up to 256 MBs of virtual memory
so, yes, you _can_ allocate that without any error.
but I don't know what would happen if you would allocate dozens of such
arrays and try to use them all at once...
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