DOS ain't dead - real mode memory management question

real mode memory management question (Developers)

posted by mr, 25.08.2008, 00:53

> Then you must be doing something wrong. ;-)

Yeah. :)

> Could you please post a short
> source code example to reproduce this behaviour?

http://nopaste.com/p/azIAZwhSW

It's a bit strange. Initially I can malloc 500 * 1024 (and also 650 * 1024 which would be 650 KB) and later in the loop it breakes after 59 * 1024 (which should be only 59 KB) due to malloc error.

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