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From: alexande@borland.com (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Re: Memory Models in TC2.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.164518.20769@borland.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:45:18 GMT
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Organization: Borland International
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In article <4660001@pollux.svale.hp.com> kevino@pollux.svale.hp.com (Kevin Owen) writes:
>I went through this same problem and found that the secret was to change 
>all calls to "malloc()" to "farmalloc()".  It appears that compiling in
>the compact and large models automagically sets all of your data types to
>"far" but does not change the values that functions return.

There are couple of mistakes here.

1. You should not have to use farmalloc() instead of malloc() --
farmalloc() is identical to malloc() in large data models.  Nor should
you have change all your pointer variables to far (as an earlier
posting suggested).

2. Pointer variables, pointers returned by functions, and pointers
passed to functions will automatically become far pointers in large
data models, unless you explicitly make them near.

Perhaps the problem was that the program did not include <stdlib.h> or
otherwise include a prototype for malloc().  Or perhaps the wrong
run-time library was being linked.