Turbo C large character array

[Chris Schoeneman]

In article <1990Jul30.204053.28769 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
 gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>
>	Well, I managed to solve my problem, with thanks to all who posted and 
>e-mailed me suggestions.  The final solution:
>
>	char huge menu[1200];
>
>	for(i = 0; i < 1200; i++)
>		menu[i] = farmalloc(80);

Almost.  But

        char huge *menu[1200];

might work a little better.  Why not just malloc the whole thing?
'Huge' arrays can be larger than 64K, they just can't be static.

        char huge *menu;

        menu=(char*) farmalloc(1200*80);

should do what you want.

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