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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Arrays > 64k revisited
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Date: 17 Nov 89 20:11:22 GMT
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SOmeone suggested that the Quick C malloc function would work with
arrays > 64k in the huge model.

I wrote a simple test program to try this, using either halloc/hfree
or malloc/free to allocate 100000 bytes, fill them with ASCII 0,
write the contents of the array to disk, then free the storage.

THe program worked fine using halloc. Using malloc, the allocation
seemed to go OK (NULL was not returned), but when the program ended,
I had to reboot as everything I tried to do produced a message
saying I was out of memory.

I looked in my manual, but it seemed less than informative.

Does anyone know the answer? Must you use halloc, or should malloc
work? If the latter, is there a bug in the free function?

Thanks

Richard Stanton

pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu