From: bruffald AT vub DOT ac DOT be (RUFFALDI BATTISTA)
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Subject: Re: Allocating and using memory with the dpmi functions
Date: 9 Jan 1997 12:21:59 GMT
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Aaron m Clemmer (aclemmer AT juno DOT com) wrote:
: On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 08:49:59 +0200 (IST) Eli Zaretskii
: <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
: >IMHO, this is a bad decision.  What's wrong with using `malloc' and 
: >Co.?  I think that going for the DPMI functions will make things 
: >considerably more complex for you (see below), without any real 
: >reason.  
: 	After reading below, I agree... I was under the impression that
: 'malloc' was somehow limited in how much I could allocate, but apparently
: not... Yeah, I'll go rewrite those functions...

: >Believe  me, you DON'T want to do that on your own without a *very* good

: >reason!
: 	I suppose there aren't many?

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If you really have troubles, you could just use a big malloc at the beginning of your code and then use your own malloc routines grabbing memory from the memory allocated with the big malloc


  Battista Ruffaldi



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