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From: rap@oliveb.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fragmentation on DOS - HELP !
Message-ID: <1074@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 15:36:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 15:36:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 16:57:29 EDT
References: <287@pyuxv.UUCP> <764@usfvax2.UUCP> <3617@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: rap@olivej.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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In article <3617@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> roy@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi) writes:
>I sincerely hope that MSC does not use the DOS functions directly to allocate
>memory, since 16 bytes is a tremendous overhead for small blocks.  I don't
>own Microsoft C, so someone else will have to look into it.
>-- 
>Roy J. Mongiovi

If you look in your MSC manual, it tells you that the memory
allocator  asks MS-DOS for a CHUNK of memory and then passes
small parts of that chunk to each request from the  program.
If  all  the  memory  in  the  CHUNK  is used up, the memory
allocator asks MS-DOS for another CHUNK.
-- 

					Robert A. Pease
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