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From: jos@and.nl (J. Horsmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: decalring large arrays
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Date: 19 Jun 91 10:39:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.205921.20757@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>tomr@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rickey Thomas Tom) writes:
>
>>I have a simple question. I sort some data. The easiest way to do this is to 
>>decalre a large array to sotre this data and then sort the array. However,
>>it apopears that in a DOS environment, I am only allowed an array up to 64 K in size. Is there a way to declare larger arrays than this for sort. Is there another way that I could store a large quantity of data for sorting.
>
>	Don't declare it as an array.  Declare it as a pointer and malloc()
>it in the program.

It won't work either, I think the poor soul is working on a PC (64K lims).
size_t is defined as an int there. An int is 16 bits on these kinda machines.
If I'm not mistaken, MSC has a function called halloc(). The 'h' stands for
'huge'. Maybe that helps ...

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