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From: rokicki@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: C compiler comparison
Message-ID: <916@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 18:58:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 18:58:58 1986
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Summary: Data segment > 64K

In article <962@tekigm.UUCP>, phils@tekigm.UUCP (Phil Staub) writes:
> Data segments, however, are limited to 64k in small model. Data are accessed
> by 16-bit offsets from a pointer to the *center* of the data segment.

  . . . he goes on about using the large data model with the
        libraries which are compiled with the small data model . . .

Usually a better solution, and one I use, is to allocate my large
data structures with AllocMem() (or malloc().)  This way, not
only can that large data segment be split into chunks, making it
more likely to load into a fragmented memory, but the compilation
is straightforward.  64K is a lot of data segment . . .

-tom