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- From: Anatoli Mandelchtam <tolik@tarley_pc.loc201.tandem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Help:Memory allocation above 64kbytes
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:20:01 -0800
- Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino, CA
- Message-ID: <30FC8701.C1E@tarley_pc.loc201.tandem.com>
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- Sensarn wrote:
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- .> Wayne Cawood <wcawood@mj.org.za> wrote:
- .> >Dear Intellectual!
- .> >
- .> >I am in desperate need of advice on how to combat the problem of
- .> >addressing memory above 64000 bytes. Nothing I do works. I know the
- .> >borland c++ 3.1 compiler should be able to but I am completely confused
- .> >as to why my computer (and others which I have tried on), bomb OUT when
- .> >I attempt to write to this memory.
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- .> Use farmalloc (includes malloc.h). Make sure you go into the
- .> OPTIONS/DEBUGGER menu and change the PROGRAM HEAP SIZE from 64k to
- .> something larger (like 640k).
- .>
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- This will allow you to allocate more than 64K but not more than 64K at a time.
- Switch to a huge memory model.
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- > >How do I address the EMS,XMS or what ever MS I am supposed to use!
- > >I have 8megs of extended memory and I can't use it!! How frustrating!!
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- What you need is a LIM EMS 4.0 specification. I don't know where to get it,
- but it should be somewhere on the Inet.
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- Regards,
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- Anatoli.
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