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to: hugo landsman
from: Daniel Lynes
date: 1996-12-16 02:44:42
subject: Re: Protected mode differenc

-=*>})hugo landsman was nattering on to Daniel Lynes
   about Re: Protected mode differenc on 11 Dec 96  12:56:22({<*=-

 hl> style, to ask the OS for more memory at every malloc.  Get a better
 hl> Win compiler and insert correct code: it's your heap, you own it and
 
 In that case, I suppose Watcom must be a lousy OS/2 and NT compiler.  I'm
 using it on both platforms.
 
 Sorry, I just didn't feel like buying a separate compiler for each platform
 I wanted to target.

 hl> so it isn't any bussiness of the OS if you want to trash it.  Your
 hl> current Win95 compiler does not implement the C language model
 hl> correctly: the heap ought to appear to your program as one block, not
 hl> little fragments. 
 
 That's why Watcom has heap management functions.

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