Re: huge-far pointer and Turbo C++ V1

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From: Doug Stevens
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 20:32

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In article <91052.082658ISSHST@BYUVM.BITNET>, ISSHST@BYUVM.BITNET writes:
> My understanding of TC++ is that a single data structure cannot be larger
> than 64K. 

This is not true; farmalloc() takes as an size argument an unsigned long,
allowing blocks larger than 64K to be malloc'd. If you then use huge pointer
arithmetic on the pointer returned, everthing will be OK (but a little slower
than accesses to a regular -- less than 64K -- block).

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From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: huge-far pointer and Turbo C++ V1
Summary: Use farmalloc()
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Date: 25 Feb 91 20:32:29 GMT
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