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From: kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Variable sized arrays?
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.000227.26061@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
Date: 22 Apr 91 00:02:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.083641.18707@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1991Apr21.211234.17738@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr21.211234.17738@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead) writes:
>wct@po.CWRU.Edu (William C. Thompson) writes:
>I think GetMem() requires that 64K or less is requested--if you want
>more, you have to turn off range checking AND request multiple 64K
>*contiguous* chunks (I think--I'm not sure if it's always an error to

How is one supposed to allocate contiguous blocks?

Plus I doubt that this would work anyway, because the limitation is the
size of a segment, minus a few bytes used by the heap manager. Thus
you could not allocate contiguous blocks, because the blocks would be 
separated by these housekeeping bytes.

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