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In article <42f680$dlj@caip.rutgers.edu> halasz@caip.rutgers.edu  writes:

> In article <42daou$n8h@tuzo.erin>, cfranzin@erin.utoronto.ca (Carla Maria
>  Franzin) writes
> > ... 
> >  What does the C language define for the maximum memory that malloc 
> > returns? The reason I ask is because of Dos 32-bit flat memory problems I 
> > have. I'm not seeing why you might want to make a singulaly linked list 
> > of say 16k?
> 
> As far as I know, none at all and the standard leavs this implementational.
> Therefore, you hav little choice but to rede your vendor s writ or ask in
> other newsgroups, as I hav set.
> 

malloc can return up to the maximum available free memory for the compiled
model - well that's not quite true as memory can get fragmented occasionally!
Thus for flat model malloc can return up to the maximum amount of memory
addressed by the extender - thus you can malloc megabytes in one call!

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    Laurence.

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