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Date: 09 Sep 1998 12:47:41 -0400
From: davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander)
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Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
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Subject: Re: Ansi C version of Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
espie@liafa.jussieu.fr (Marc Espie) writes:
> If you want STRICT ansi C, you're asking for trouble, as malloc() is
> limited to 64K thanks to brain-dead architectures.
I thought this was such a strange comment that I had to go check
my copy of the ANSI standard. As I suspected, the C standard
places no limits on the amount of memory that one can request
via malloc(). Well, the size has to fit into a size_t, so your
limited to objects whose size can be described by one of those.
- David