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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Desired: "limitless" heap manager reviews/recommendations
Keywords: C virtual memory manager heap EMM expanded
Message-ID: <221@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 91 18:16:02 GMT
References: <KERCE.91Jan9164453@nu.cs.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <KERCE.91Jan9164453@nu.cs.fsu.edu> kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Kingsley F. Kerce) writes:
/Does anyone have opinion on a C heap manager that uses ex[pan/ten]ded
/memory and/or fixed disk space?  I would hope that such a package
/would be as easy to use as the malloc() family.  Additionally, it
/would be nice if the manager worked with Turbo C 2.0.  Finally, if
/it's free, that's perfect.

Zortech C/C++ implements a 'handle' pointer type that points into EMS
memory. It makes using EMS as easy as using malloc'd data. It comes
free with Zortech, unfortunately, Zortech isn't free! :-)