Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: free() in SAS C Message-ID: <1991May8.235041.17893@NCoast.ORG> Date: 8 May 91 23:50:41 GMT References: <1991May02.143148.22732@edb.tih.no> <1991May07.164814.2538@medar.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 22 As quoted from <1991May07.164814.2538@medar.com> by jseymour@medar.com (James Seymour): +--------------- | In article chopps@ro-chp.UUCP (Chris Hopps) writes: | >By ANSI def. you can only (m|c|re)alloc 64k blocks and less. | >RTFM :^) | >SAS/C Volume 2, Page L19-22. | | *really* an ANSI-imposed 64k malloc limit? This hardly seems reasonable | to me. Heck, if I wanted 64k limits, I coulda bought a MeSsy-DOS box | (shudder). +--------------- ANSI is in the business of codifying the maximum capabilities that are common to every system they can find and calling it a "standard"... 64K may well be it, thanks to that bloody Intel-based hack you mentioned. :-( ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery Ham: KB8JRR/AA 10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG (restricted HF at present) Delphi: ALLBERY AMPR: kb8jrr.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery KB8JRR @ WA8BXN.OH