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- From: francis@vnet.ibm.com (Tim Francis)
- Message-ID: <19921106.072906.103@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 10:28:38 EST
- Subject: OS/2 compiler needed
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- References: <4222@prune.bbn.com>
- Reply-To: francis@vnet.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM Canada Lab, WorkFrame/2 development
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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- In article <4222@prune.bbn.com>,
- cherniac@bbn.com (Natasha Cherniack) writes:
- >
- >A friend of mine is looking for a compiler that will support malloc'ing large
- >amounts of data (~4 meg). Currently he is using Microsoft and that only allows
- >malloc'ing up to one segment. Are there any OS/2 compilers around that can do
- >this? Words of wisdom and encouragement needed!! :)
- >
- >Please email to cherniac@bbn.com
- >Thanks
- >Natasha
-
- OS/2 2.0 has a 32 bit flat memory model -- no more segments! Any compiler
- that generates 32 bit code for OS/2 (such as IBM C Set/2) should be able
- to malloc as much as you want in one step. -tim
-