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farmalloc() Allocate Memory from Far Heap
#include <alloc.h>
void far *farmalloc(size);
unsigned long size; Size of memory block
farmalloc() allocates a block of memory from the far heap that is 'size'
bytes long. Allocations from the far heap can include all of available RAM.
farmalloc() can allocate blocks of memory larger than 64K. Use farfree()
in the small and medium memory models to free blocks of memory allocated
with farmalloc().
Returns: A far pointer to the newly allocated block, if
successful; NULL if there is not enough space for the
new block.
Notes: farmalloc() differs from malloc() in that it takes
unsigned long parameters; malloc() takes unsigned.
The tiny model cannot have any segment fixups (which
are often produced by far pointers), and thus cannot
use farmalloc().
-------------------------------- Example ---------------------------------
The following statements allocate space for 1000 bytes and then free
the allocated space.
#include <alloc.h>
#include <stdio.h> /* for printf and NULL */
char far *far_ptr;
main()
{
if ((far_ptr = farmalloc(1000L)) == NULL)
printf("not enough room to allocate memory\n");
else {
.
.
farfree(far_ptr);
}
}
See Also:
farcalloc()
farcoreleft()
farfree()
farrealloc()
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