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From: janin@tybalt.caltech.edu (Adam L. Janin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Allocating large amounts of memory
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Date: 19 Jan 89 04:18:41 GMT
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I am having a problem allocating large amounts of memory in LightSpeed C.
I want to allocate a relocatable block which is larger than 32k.  I get
out of memory errors when I try.  Calling MaxMem indicates that I have
over 200k free and that my largest block is over 100k in size.  I am using
LightSpeed C 3.0, system 6.0.2, on a Mac II with 2 Meg of memory, multifinder,
and several INITs.  Anyone know what causes the 32k limit?  The memory
manager says that the size of a block is limited only to availible memory,
and all numbers appear to be longs, although the 32k size appears to be
related to the size of a signed int.

	Any help would be appreciated,

			Adam Janin
			janin@csvax.caltech.edu  or  janin@cgl.ucsf.edu