Re: size of

From	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: size of
Date	2013-08-26 01:46 +0000
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Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
> On 24-Aug-13 07:55, Richard Damon wrote:

(snip, someone wrote)
>>> To that point, MS's calloc() apparently will not allow objects
>>> larger than 64kB to be created, while the similar _halloc()
>>> function _will_ create objects larger than 64kB given identical
>>> arguments, probably on the assumption that a programmer who calls
>>> _halloc() rather than calloc() will know that's a possibility.
 
>> The issue was that _halloc didn't return a void* but a huge void*,
 
> Ah, that detail wasn't mentioned before.  Did huge pointers work in code
> compiled for other (i.e. non-huge) memory models?  Shouldn't calloc()
> have the same behavior under the huge memory model?

I believe so. That way you could override the default, so that
it was only used when necessary.  You would have to be careful
with such pointers, so that they never got dereferenced in
the wrong model.

The near and far keywords allowed you to override the defaults for
the other memory models, too.

-- glen

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