Subj : Re: malloc()
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jan Vernimmen
Date : Thu Jun 24 2004 12:57 pm

Hello Bob,

I am indeed targeting Windows.
I can try your suggestions, but did you read the answer given by Ed Mulroy?

Jan.


Bob Gonder wrote:

> Jan Vernimmen wrote:
> 
> 
>>I was at the point to take a deep breath and rewrite everything using new() 
>>and delete() where I'm using malloc() and free() now.
> 
> 
> You are targeting Windows, now, right?
> Then why not use the Windows allocation?
> 
> 	pointer = GlobalAlloc( GMEM_FIXED | GMEM_ZEROINIT, howmuch );
> 	GlobalFree( pointer );
> 
> AFAIK the GMEM_FIXED blocks don't have many issues.
> To try it, you could wrap them in your own versions of malloc() and
> free(), and just rebuild.
> 
> void * malloc(size_t size)
> {	return GLobalAlloc(GMEM_FIXED,size);
> }
>

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