Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!isi.edu!sondeen From: sondeen@isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Can Borland C++ malloc > 640K? Message-ID: <17858@venera.isi.edu> Date: 7 May 91 05:56:48 GMT References: <316@nazgul.UUCP> Reply-To: sondeen@venera.isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen) Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 27 In article <316@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes: >In article sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: >/I'm writing an application that needs to malloc about 1500K of memory >/for a large tree. Does anyone know any tricks to let the BC++ heap see >/extended memory? > >For applications of this sort, you simply need a 32 bit compiler, that runs >with a 32 bit DOS Extender like Pharlap's. 32 bit compilers for MSDOS include: > >Zortech C/C++ >Watcom C >Metaware C > >With a 32 bit compiler you needn't worry again about far pointers, huge >pointers, 64k segments or 640k barriers. Also djgcc, a very nice port of GNU gcc/g++ over to MSDOS with its own DOS extender. Perhaps not as well-supported as commercial software, but the price is right (if you can live with the copyleft). Available by anon. ftp at grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, directory pub/msdos/djgcc and other fine pc software stores. -- /jeff sondeen@isi.edu "engineers were discouraged from bringing problems to the attention of their supervisors" -- John Magnus, final report, Hubble Space Telescope investigation