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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: far_malloc for SCO Xenix
Keywords: sco xenix malloc
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Date: 8 Feb 89 17:28:39 GMT
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Does anyone have working equivalents to far_malloc() and far_free() for
SCO Xenix 286?

I tried taking the memory manager given in K & R and patching it to use
brkctl(). So far I have not made it work. The problem appears to be in
the comparison of unnormalized far pointers.

In lieu of working code for a far_malloc(), I would appreciate
suggestions on how to convert the K & R memory manager (or some other
readily available "malloc") to handle far pointers.

Is there any good reason why there is not such a routine in the C
library for SCO Xenix? MSC and Turbo C both provide these so it is
apparently possible.

E H. Kinmonth, Hist. Dept.,  Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616
916-752-1636/0776

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