Porting software to the PC, 64K data structure barrier.

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From: Avinash Chopde
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 19:19

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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 ?
(If not, will malloc() support allocation of large arrays ?)

Looks like it is not going to be an easy job, porting programs to the PC,
and I would be glad for any help anybody can offer regarding what I could
do, and what I should watch out for.
Thanks for any help.
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Subject: Porting software to the PC, 64K data structure barrier.
Keywords: PC, 64K struct size limitations, MSDOS
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Date: 29 Jun 91 19:19:32 GMT
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