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From: don@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC 6.0 malloc question
Message-ID: <292200008@trsvax>
Date: 6 Jun 90 17:06:00 GMT
References: <36163@sequent.UUCP>
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Nf-ID: #R:sequent.UUCP:36163:trsvax:292200008:000:943
Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!don    Jun  6 11:06:00 1990

>Using MSC 6.0 (same results with 5.1, though)
>Compact model (multiple data, one code segment)

>Have an array of character pointers and a tmp declared as: 
>	"char far *arga[8], *p"

>Executing a for loop that allocates memory:

>	for(i=0;i<num_buf;i++) {
>		if(( p = ( char *)_fmalloc(size)) == NULL)
>			printf("not enough memory");
>			exit(1);
>		}
>		arga[i] = p;
>	}

The problem in this code fragment has to do with the variable declarations.

	char far *arga[8], *p

This says arga is an array of 8 char far pointers, while p is a char near
pointer.  To make p a far pointer, try

	char far *arga[8], far *p;


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