Turbo C large character array

Bernard Farrell farrell at onedge.enet.dec.com
Mon Aug 6 22:41:55 AEST 1990


In article <17ac63d1.ARN02634 at xenon.stgt.sub.org>, alf at xenon.stgt.sub.org (Ingo Feulner) writes...
> 
>But doesn't say the ANSI standard that malloc() mustn't allocate more than
>64K once a time? (so says my Lattice C manual)

'Fraid not.  While 64K might be a reasonable restriction on older PC systems,
it would kill me on VAXen, etc.  Section 4.10.3 of The Standard has no mention
of Implementation Limits.


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