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In article <1992Aug4.131054.232@hou.amoco.com> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us writes:
/>jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
/>: I finally ended up with a simple process where the filesize is determined,
/>: a buffer large enough to hold the file is malloc'ed (in smaller chunks to
/>: avoid one block of data > 64k...geez, you'd think the people writing C
/>: compilers could handle that in the background and make a more correctly
/>: behaved C compiler).
/I don't really care about dos's limitations (well, ok, I have to care....
/but I don't want to have to care).  my point is, you'd think that a
/commercial C compiler like tc++ would SILENTLY organize things so that
/you could (as far as you're concerned, anyways) malloc a data structure
/larger than 64k.

Zortech is a commercial C/C++ compiler, that with the X memory model,
lets you build true 32 bit DOS apps. You can malloc data structures as
large as you have memory in your machine, all without far or kludge
pointers.