• Robert Riebisch (4/4) Sep 18 2006 'size_t' is defined as 'unsigned' in, e.g., stdlib.h, but is it impossib...
• Walter Bright (2/7) Sep 20 2006 Which function did you find that in? _nmalloc?
• Robert Riebisch (4/5) Sep 21 2006 Probably. ;-) I didn't debug the RTL, but the generated test
• Robert Riebisch (2/5) Oct 04 2006 Um, still waiting... :-(

Robert Riebisch <rr bttr-software.de> writes:

'size_t' is defined as 'unsigned' in, e.g., stdlib.h, but is it impossible
to allocate more than 32,764 bytes at once?

I found a JGE instruction in malloc's code, but why do you a signed
comparison?

Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

Robert Riebisch wrote:
 'size_t' is defined as 'unsigned' in, e.g., stdlib.h, but is it impossible
 to allocate more than 32,764 bytes at once?
 
 I found a JGE instruction in malloc's code, but why do you a signed
 comparison?

Which function did you find that in? _nmalloc?

Robert Riebisch <rr bttr-software.de> writes:

Walter Bright wrote:

 Which function did you find that in? _nmalloc?

Probably. ;-) I didn't debug the RTL, but the generated test
executable. I use the small memory model (option '-ms') and the
instruction was 'call near ptr _malloc'. Hope, this helps!

Robert Riebisch <rr bttr-software.de> writes:

Robert Riebisch wrote:

 Probably. ;-) I didn't debug the RTL, but the generated test
 executable. I use the small memory model (option '-ms') and the
 instruction was 'call near ptr _malloc'. Hope, this helps!

Um, still waiting... :-(