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Article #7416Re: Porting software to the PC, 64K data structure barrier.
From: Timo Salmi
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 20:37
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 20:37
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In article <1972@contex.contex.com> avinash@felix.contex.com (Avinash Chopde) writes: >I need to port a program I wrote for UNIX machines onto the IBM PC. >I have the Turbo C++ compiler, and at first, I just tried to >recompile all the sources, but the compiler complained about >a struct being greater than 64K in size! >Now, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, surely there must be some >way of defining large arrays. >Is there ? : I've only used Turbo Pascal, so this is just a tentative answer. In TP one has to go around the 64K limitation by a judicious use of pointers (I have a FAQ collection to cover how). But doesn't Turbo C have what is called a huge model (a rhetorical question). ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Porting software to the PC, 64K data structure barrier. Keywords: PC, 64K struct size limitations, MSDOS Message-ID: <1991Jun29.203704.8443@uwasa.fi> Date: 29 Jun 91 20:37:04 GMT References: <1972@contex.contex.com> Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland Lines: 20