Turbo C large character array

[Evan Marshall Manning]

farrell at onedge.enet.dec.com (Bernard Farrell) writes:

>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.

I believe malloc() takes size_t = unsigned int.  On systems where int is
16 bits 64K is indeed the limit.  On some DOS systems i believe you can
set int size to 32 bits with a compiler switch, but I'm not sure if malloc()
is smart enough to take advantage.

-- Evan

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