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From: farrell@onedge.enet.dec.com (Bernard Farrell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C large character array
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Date: 6 Aug 90 12:41:55 GMT
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In article <17ac63d1.ARN02634@xenon.stgt.sub.org>, alf@xenon.stgt.sub.org (Ingo Feulner) writes...
> 
>But doesn't say the ANSI standard that malloc() mustn't allocate more than
>64K once a time? (so says my Lattice C manual)

'Fraid not.  While 64K might be a reasonable restriction on older PC systems,
it would kill me on VAXen, etc.  Section 4.10.3 of The Standard has no mention
of Implementation Limits.


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