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From: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: wrong malloc return
Keywords: TurboC
Message-ID: <294@wzv.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 20:39:54 GMT
References: <8262@techunix.BITNET>
Reply-To: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <8262@techunix.BITNET> ssreefc@techunix.BITNET (florin coter) writes:
>
>                if( ( p = (char *)malloc( many mega bytes... ) ) == NULL )
>                        puts( "no space..." );
>
>[on an ibm with 640 Kb of ram with turboC 1.5] i never get the "no space..."
>line on the screen. why ?

malloc() expects an unsigned integer argument.  Therefore, on a 16-bit
machine it allocates at most 65535 bytes per call.  In your case, the
argument as seen by malloc was 16 bits of gargabe.
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