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Re: Turbo Pascal memory

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From: Alexei A. Frounze
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:00
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Dominik Gehl wrote:

> Hi!
> Does anybody know exactly how Turbo Pascal 7.0 does the memory
> management? I have a program with lots and lots of pointers to get
> running under Windows NT and I always get memory overflows. I think
> that Turbo Pascal does not use the whole 128MB RAM I have but only the
> first 16MB. If yes, is there any way to change this? Do I have to
> compile using TP or TPX. What are the differences? Are there any
> compiler flags I have to use?

Dominic, hi! You can use up to 4GB memory in BP (but with asm stuff) in
pure DOS
(i.e. not any kind of Windows, w/o any memory managers such as himem.sys,
emm.exe and qemm.exe.) Visit my homapage at www.chat.ru/~alexfru
try "Programming" area.
Bye.
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From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfru@chat.ru>
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Date: 1999/07/07
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