Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/02/03:14:37
On Thu, 30 May 1996, Ben Ashley wrote:
> 2. I saw a posting today, about the results of 'Malloc'. I am under the
> impression that DJGPP's malloc can reserve memory greater than 640k? Is
> this true? If so, what sort of pointers do I then need to use? Can I
> just use it like standard Malloc, only for larger amounts of memory?
It's all just memory. You can forget about all those far and huge
pointers that you get to learn under 16-bit compilers. ("Far pointer" in
DJGPP means something entirely different: accessing addresses that are
usually outside your program's address space.)
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