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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: > 64 K
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Date: 15 Nov 89 01:40:29 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Nov 14 08:30:00 1989



>In MS C [...]  you can use arrays
>larger in size than 64k in huge models, but you cannot just set
>aside space for them by using a line like

>char bigarray[150000];
This is incorrect. In MSC 5.1 you can indeed say:

char huge bigarray[150000];

>For very large arrays, there are also some restrictions about
>the size of each element being a power of 2, I seem to remember,
>but if you are just using char or int, this should not be a problem.
long or float or double is OK also.

But you must remember that you have to be careful about passing huge
addresses to routines expecting "far" ones.

Doug McDonald