Turbo C large character array

[Larry Hastings]

+-In article <17ac63d1.ARN02634 at xenon.stgt.sub.org>, alf at xenon.stgt.sub.org (Ingo Feulner) wrote:-
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| But doesn't say the ANSI standard that malloc() mustn't allocate more than
| 64K once a time? (so says my Lattice C manual)
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No, not really.  It's a limitation of the Intel processor's segmented
architecture that you (and I) spend our days cursing -- the 64k segment size
makes it stupefyingly difficult to access more than 64k at one time.  (Some
DOS compilers support "halloc", or "huge alloc" calls, which break this 64k
barrier with a huge code overhead.)  More powerful systems with flat address
spaces allow allocations of megabytes at a time, and I would theorize that
there are mainframe programs which allocate _gigabytes_ at times.

If you have any more questions about the ANSI standard, you should buy a
reference on ANSI C.  The draft itself is available, as are many good (and
cheaper) reference books.  I don't mean to be offensive, but the _worldwide_
Usenet is really not the place to ask questions so easily answered by a good
reference book.

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