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From: Peter Breuer
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:42

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In article <1992Jul16.195333.19202@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@rushmore (Russ
Poffenberger) writes:
>
>You don't need huge memory model to use huge pointers. You can use huge
>pointers in ANY memory model. If your application only needs a few large
>segments of memory, it is better to just use huge pointers and farmalloc
>than to switch to a larger memory model.
>

But note that "A tiny model program cannot make use of farmalloc"
(turbo C manual).

Peter <ptb@uk.ac.ox.comlab>

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From: ptb@prg.ox.ac.uk (Peter Breuer)
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Subject: Re: Memory Model questions...
Summary: Farmalloc caveat.
Keywords: malloc farmalloc
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Date: 21 Jul 92 16:42:55 GMT
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