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From: jeff@u02.svl.cdc.com (Jeff Needham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: farmolloc and malloc
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Date: 8 Feb 91 23:14:58 GMT
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This is posted on behalf of someone without Net access
I will forward all responses

jeff

I am using Turbo C++ on a PC clone with 1MB of RAM. Actually, I'm not using
any of the OOP stuff; just writing vanilla C programs.

No matter what I try, or how small my program is, I find that "malloc" and
"farmalloc" allocate space in the same segment, which starts out at about
62000 bytes long. At the very least, I wish they could use two different
segments of that size. At best, I wish "farmalloc" could allocate different
segments until available RAM is exhausted.

My test program uses "coreleft" and "farcoreleft". They seem to give the
right answers, agreeing with the point at which "malloc" or "farmalloc"
returns a NULL pointer.

What am I doing wrong, or neglecting to do ?
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