Subj : Re: Questions about large memory allocation...?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : waking
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 12:51 am

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:27:14 +0500, "mujeebrm" <mujeebrm@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  how can i allocate more than 70000 and show it printed 0 to 69999

Use huge pointers.

> unsigned int  *p=0,n=0; 

unsigned int huge  *p=0,n=0; 


> p = (unsigned int *) malloc(65535*sizeof(unsigned int ) ); 
>/* this works */

Not the way you think. 65535*2 = 131070 which gets truncated to fit into an
unsigned int, so you're only allocating 31070 bytes. Use farmalloc to avoid
this truncation:

p = (unsigned int huge *) farmalloc(65535*sizeof(unsigned int ) );


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Wayne A. King 
(waking@idirect.com, Wayne_A_King@compuserve.com)

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