From:	korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: sbrk ?
Date:	30 Oct 1996 19:25:38 GMT
Organization:	Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab
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In article <54se3i$ifp AT salomon DOT mchp DOT siemens DOT de>,
Ulrich Lauther <lauther AT cayley DOT zfe DOT siemens DOT de> wrote:
>
>you didn't read my question. I need it under Visual C++ (which I am *forced*
>to use).
>I cannot use malloc (at least not conveniently) as I need memory aligned to
>4096 byte boundaries.

Does Visual C++ have memalign() or valloc()?  If so you could use
memalign(4096,size) or valloc(size).  If worse comes to worse you can
always "#define valloc(size) ((malloc((size)+4096)+4096) & ~4095)"

I'm assuming that NT uses segments with page grandularity bases.

Eric
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