DOS ain't dead - real mode memory management question

real mode memory management question (Developers)

posted by marcov, 25.08.2008, 10:34

> EDIT: 650k should never work (else you're doing something VERY weird).

This sounds all like it is in FPC, so maybe this is a 32-bit compiler?

(malloc (getmem) allocates from 32-bit mem, dos_alloc from realmode mem (which is unused, except for 100k extender stuff) so a malloc(650k) will work (even a 128MB could), but dos_alloc(650k) won't.

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