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Subject: Re: strange comparison error
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En Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:37:58 -0500, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> escribió:

>
>> Sorry, I don't understand. Could you please explain a bit more?  We
>> are using 32 bit numbers, the size of the struct is around 100
>> bytes. We should go to thousands of t_field's to reach
>> overflow. Right? I have 14 here.
>
> You don't know how close to the end of memory DJGPP put your
> structures, though.

Ouch! So when I am running a 1Mb program on a 128Mb RAM machine I can get 
pointers (from malloc, for example) with values near to 2Gb! If this is 
true, I need to rewrite some code!


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