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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo C++ and Extended Memory, Huge model, large data structs
Message-ID: <2729@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 20:52:31 GMT
References: <ajai.653069128@talos.sce.carleton.ca> <34890003@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <34890003@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
<How hard would it be to get the compiler to generate code that will allow
<declaration of a single object < 64K ? Metaware High-C used to advertise
<"Can your C-compiler do this ? ....   int data[1000000];". So, they can
<do it.

Shortly we (Zortech) will have a 386 compiler which can generate full 32
bit apps to run under dos using PharLap's DOS Extender. Then it will be
practical and trivial to manipulate objects >64k in size.