DN>> Borland have some soother functions with frealloc() (or
 DN>> farrealloc()?) which does accept a long, but you need to
 DN>> realise that these functions are entirely non-standard.
 FA> That's ok, he doesn't care ;)

 FA> I just looked it up, you're right it's non ANSI, but
 FA> then how do i allocate more than 64Ks at a time portably ?

Under the ISO standard, there is no portable way. From memory, it specifies
a maximum 'object size' of something like 32K.

On most systems, however, you just allocate it. all of the far* functions
are 16-bit compiler only, because that's the only place they're needed
(that and huge, far pointers and other such rubbish).


 FA> I think new isn't ANSI either, not to mention that it's C++ only.

operator new is certainly described in the draft ANSI C++ standard - it is
an integral part of the C++ langauge.

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