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From: mdfreed@ziebmef.uucp (Mark Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for a decent C compiler
Message-ID: <1989Jun17.081153.19335@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 22 Jul 89 12:11:51 GMT
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(if you're running MS-DOS, you *can't* get around the 64k structure limit)
  
  I thought that one could dynamically allocate objects larger than 64K in the
HUGE memory model, or by using HUGE pointers. According to the reference for
Turbo C 2.0, farmalloc() can allocate blocks larger than 64K (from the far heap)
. I don't have Microsoft C, but I suspect that it is similar (except for the
bugs introduced by the optimizer :-)).