Re: Allocating more the 16MB in C

["Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>]

> It's scary how often this happens. Wasn't interested when I saw it but a
few
> days after I delete a week's worth of messages I need the information.
> If the details of that
> message could be reposted I would greatly appreciate it.

The question was:
> Its possible (allegedly) to use System heap by setting the
> _HEAP_SIZE macro to _NO_DEFAULT_HEAP.  This should
> then give access to much more memory.

My answer was :

As far as I remember, calloc/malloc/realloc are all limited to approx 16meg.

If you're at V4R4+ you could try the teraspace support (parm TERASPACE on
the CRTCMOD cmd) which bumps up the limit when using these functions, to
huge values.

--phil



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