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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Porting software to the PC, 64K data structure barrier.
Keywords: PC, 64K struct size limitations, MSDOS
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.203704.8443@uwasa.fi>
Date: 29 Jun 91 20:37:04 GMT
References: <1972@contex.contex.com>
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <1972@contex.contex.com> avinash@felix.contex.com (Avinash Chopde) writes:
>I need to port a program I wrote for UNIX machines onto the IBM PC.
>I have the Turbo C++ compiler, and at first, I just tried to
>recompile all the sources, but the compiler complained about
>a struct being greater than 64K in size!
>Now, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, surely there must be some
>way of defining large arrays.
>Is there ?
:

I've only used Turbo Pascal, so this is just a tentative answer.  In
TP one has to go around the 64K limitation by a judicious use of
pointers (I have a FAQ collection to cover how).  But doesn't Turbo
C have what is called a huge model (a rhetorical question). 

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