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From: frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: far_malloc for SCO Xenix
Summary: far and near mallocs
Keywords: sco xenix malloc
Message-ID: <151@usource.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 15:09:42 GMT
References: <20114@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: UniSource, Inc., Sarasota, FL
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In article <20114@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:

> Does anyone have working equivalents to far_malloc() and
> far_free() for SCO Xenix 286? 

Check out the library routines in Llibc.a called fmalloc()
and ffree().  These routines are found in fmalloc.o.  There
are also routines called nmalloc() and nfree() in nmalloc.o.
 
I stumbled upon these while trying to cheat the malloc() call
and install my own which kept track of pointers (see Dr Dobbs,
June, 1988...).

The routines aren't documented anywhere that I know of, but
their behaviour seems to be predictable... they are the far and
near versions of malloc() and free().
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