wrong malloc return

[Wietse Z. Venema]

In article <8262 at techunix.BITNET> ssreefc at techunix.BITNET (florin coter) writes:
>
>                if( ( p = (char *)malloc( many mega bytes... ) ) == NULL )
>                        puts( "no space..." );
>
>[on an ibm with 640 Kb of ram with turboC 1.5] i never get the "no space..."
>line on the screen. why ?

malloc() expects an unsigned integer argument.  Therefore, on a 16-bit
machine it allocates at most 65535 bytes per call.  In your case, the
argument as seen by malloc was 16 bits of gargabe.
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