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From: a50@mindlink.UUCP (Cliff Lum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Microsoft C V5.1 halloc() problem.
Message-ID: <2713@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 90 22:21:26 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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A NULL return indicates a memory allocation fail because of insufficient space
or bad values of the arguments.
here is some sample code
#include <malloc.h>
#define MAX_SIZE 100000L
main()
        short huge *larray;
        if (( larray = (short huge *)halloc(MAX_SIZE, sizeof(short))) == NULL
{
        printf("Alocation by halloc failed ");
        exit(0);
        }
printf("Allocated");
hfree(void huge *)larray); /* free the array */
} /* also missing the { after main() */

example call
p_huge = (short huge *)halloc(100000, sizeof(short));