From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: memory Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:25:35 -0400 Organization: Nortel Networks Lines: 28 Message-ID: <376F8ECF.CD052125@americasm01.nt.com> References: <7jk4cc$an5 AT fstgal00 DOT tu-graz DOT ac DOT at> <375DA526 DOT A3AC190C AT swipnet DOT se> <376922D9 DOT F2F95A8F AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> <376939FC DOT 2C38A228 AT swipnet DOT se> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerhc00.ca.nortel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/712) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id KAB18108 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Mattias Eklöf wrote: > > > > how can I make an array with c++ in dos with 1Meg? > > > char* pArray = new char[1024*1024]; > > > if (pArray == 0) cerr << "Oops...! Time to buy more memory!" << endl; > > Only problem is that (by default) new will terminate the program if > > there isn't enough memory, not return null. > I've never experienced that would be the case with DJGPP. > Mattias Try compiling and running this: char* a = new char[1000000000]; int main() { return 0; } I get "Virtual memory exceeded in `new'" as output. -- -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318