From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: malloc()...free()...WTF??
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:06:49 -0400
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Merlin wrote:
> 
> When you declare a pointer....it doesn't use the 64k which is allocated for
> variables... so you have to call malloc or calloc to give it a size.. example:
> int  *a_ptr = (int *)malloc(64000)  //calloc(64000,1) can be used instead of malloc
> ok...this would make an array-like pointer with 64000 spaces...

Be careful, Merlin... the 64k barrier only exists in 16-bit, real-mode
compilers; for DJGPP and other 32-bit compilers, the only practical
limit is the amount of DPMI memory available.

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