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From: mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: !@#$ 64k segments!
Message-ID: <1595@msa3b.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 11:31:27 GMT
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Organization: Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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millerje@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Jeff Miller) writes:

>I am writing a program in C,  and just to make life easy, I want to malloc
>(actually calloc) a data space > 64k.  I noticed that if I malloc <65535
>bytes (<64k) I can fread directly into that buffer.  What I'd like to do
>is be able to fread into a buffer about 256k in size. (The reason for this
>is speed).  I have tried the large memory model as well as huge pointers, but
>to no avail.  Are there any special versions of malloc &/or calloc that
>will let me do this?

Try using farcalloc -or- farmalloc.