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From: rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help with Turbo C "farmalloc"
Summary: don't forget alloc.h
Message-ID: <2521@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 16:39:50 GMT
References: <25d2b215@ralf>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <25d2b215@ralf>, Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
> Here is some code which I use for small permanent allocations, which virtually
> eliminates memory management overhead (16-32 bytes overhead for 8192 bytes of
> allocation, assuming 16-byte or smaller allocations).  You may want to use
> farmalloc() instead of malloc() to allocate the blocks which get parceled
> out.

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Ralf's code is probably terrific, but remember to

#include <alloc.h>

or you'll probably have problems in the larger memory models.

rob