DOS ain't dead - real mode memory management question

real mode memory management question (Developers)

posted by mr, 24.08.2008, 21:19

> Are you're talking about C/C++?

Yes.

> There is no "standard" how they implement
> their heap management, so at best you can ask for information about how a
> certain compiler does handle this issue.

I used watcom.

> Usually there are extensions available - I vaguely remember dos_allocmem()
> - which allow to directly alloc memory from DOS, and which can be freed
> once you're done.

dos_allocmem exists but the informations found on google are very rare.

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