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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: malloc array bigger than 32k on a 16bit int machine?
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.073222.3467@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 07:32:22 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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is there a standard way to allocate dynamically an array bigger
than 32k on a machine with 16bit ints? i think malloc calls
brk, which takes an int, so it cant bump a chunk bigger than 32k.
what i am really interested in is being able to allocate arrays
arbitrarily big. (a solution for allocating 42k arrays would be
interesting to me, but i would really like a significantly less
limited way to get memory)

gwoho liu.