Turbo and Borland C farmalloc() limit

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From: Lee Sailer
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 17:21

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I have what appears to be a bug in both TC2.0 and the new BC++.

When I use farmalloc((unsigned long)512L*1024L) to allocate a
piece of memory of size 512K (or larger), farmalloc *appears*
to return a legitimate pointer.  However, if I try another farmalloc()
and then another and another, they *all* succeed, each returning
what appears to be a legitimate pointer.

So far, my search of the docs does not say anywhere that farmalloc()
is limited to 512K, but that sure appears to be the case.  BTW--I am
using the huge or compact model, though that shouldn't be
the problem.

Any advice appreciated.

                               lee

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