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From: yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC)
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Subject: Re: Allocating large amounts of memory
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Date: 20 Jan 89 14:15:20 GMT
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In article <9154@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, janin@tybalt.caltech.edu (Adam L. Janin) writes...

>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...

There's no obvious reason you should have a problem doing this, 
HOWEVER... are you sure you're passing a long to NewHandle? If
you're passing something that evals to a 1 word int, and it is
larger than 32K, it will really be negative. If you then cast it to
a long, it will be an immensely large number guarenteed to cause
NewHandle to fail. Or something like that, hope you catch my drift...

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