Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:53:41 +0530
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From: Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Memory allocation.
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> I'm new to DJGPP and i'm a bit stuck. I want to allocate some memory for a
> screen buffer in one of my prgrams. I need 192000 bytes. My question is:
> what function is it best to use to allocate this memory? I know about malloc
> but is it better to use one of the other __dpmi_...  memory allocation
> functions, if so which one and how are they used?

"malloc" uses the DPMI functions by default. So, it's best to leave
memory allocation to "malloc" itself.

Prashant