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Second attempt to post this, I fear the first text stayed local only: 

Hello,

I got trouble with Borland C++ v3.1 for DOS running under OS/2 in a DOS BOX with the following piece of code:

-- snip ---
  printf("Memory avail: %li Bytes\n",farcoreleft);
  picture=(unsigned char huge*)farmalloc(483000);
  if (picture==NULL) {
    printf("Not enough memory for picture buffer #1.\n"); exit(8);
  }
  printf("Memory avail after buffer #1: %li Bytes\n",farcoreleft);
-- snap ---

Compiler setting is to "HUGE". But farmalloc (and farcalloc, too) won't get memory from the far heap (Under OS/2 with max settings around 500 MByte!). Instead it get memory from the near heap, which size is limited to size of DOS main memory. Thus a 483000 Bytes block doesn't fit, but 480000 does. I tested it under plain DOS, there are some bytes more memory available and it worked.

If farmalloc would get the DOS memory first, and then the far memory - OK, I could live with it. But unfortunately farmalloc NEVER gets any memory from my big far heap. 

Thanx,

Tels

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