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- From: ptb@prg.ox.ac.uk (Peter Breuer)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Memory Model questions...
- Summary: Farmalloc caveat.
- Keywords: malloc farmalloc
- Message-ID: <4080@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:42:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.013433.21392@sequent.com> <1992Jul16.195333.19202@sj.ate.slb.com>
- Sender: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk
- Reply-To: ptb@prg.ox.ac.uk (Peter Breuer)
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- In article <1992Jul16.195333.19202@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@rushmore (Russ
- Poffenberger) writes:
- >
- >You don't need huge memory model to use huge pointers. You can use huge
- >pointers in ANY memory model. If your application only needs a few large
- >segments of memory, it is better to just use huge pointers and farmalloc
- >than to switch to a larger memory model.
- >
-
- But note that "A tiny model program cannot make use of farmalloc"
- (turbo C manual).
-
- Peter <ptb@uk.ac.ox.comlab>
-