Subj : Re: malloc()
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jan Vernimmen
Date : Wed Jun 23 2004 03:36 pm

Sebastian Ledesma wrote:
> Jan:
> 
> In current era you can use extra memory, the cost of extra memory is less
> than the development cicle.
> Why you did not declare the variables as 128 or 256 bytes long?
> Also if you are interesed in patch your RTL libraries check:
> http://personal.sirma.bg/Jogy/bcrtlfix.html
> 
> 
> Saludos
> Sebastian

Hola Sebastian,

The first editions of this progam were made in days that I had to turn around 
every value and look if I could use a short int or even a byte value.
The current version is an update of those days, but I still have to read and 
use data files written in that time. And I can without problems! I can even 
handle the datafiles written on 6502 systems and the Atari 520. Stronger: the 
current values are still written to file in that format switching lo- and 
hi-order bytes of nummeric values.

Not every memory saving tric of those days is rewritten in the way you suggest 
above, but a lot already is!

Thanks for your comment.
Jan.

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