Microsoft C - Heap space question

[David T. Sandberg]

In article <2930 at puff.cs.wisc.edu> schaut at rt1.cs.wisc.edu (Richard Schaut) writes:
:In article <4143 at csd4.csd.uwm.edu> chad at csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons) writes:
:|function is declared--I believe--as "char far *farmalloc(size_t);"  
:				      ^^^^
:If MS C is ANSI compatible, then the function would be declared as
:"void far *farmalloc(size size_t);" thereby removing the need to cast
:the return value to a pointer to a specific kind of object.

MSC 5.1 does indeed return void pointers from all of it's malloc calls.
It should be noted that the referred-to function is actually "void far
*_fmalloc(size_t size);", and that when compiling with large model,
malloc() calls are mapped to _fmalloc by default.

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