decalring large arrays

John Gordon gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Wed Jun 19 06:59:21 AEST 1991


tomr at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rickey Thomas Tom) writes:

>I have a simple question. I sort some data. The easiest way to do this is to 
>decalre a large array to sotre this data and then sort the array. However,
>it apopears that in a DOS environment, I am only allowed an array up to 64 K in size. Is there a way to declare larger arrays than this for sort. Is there another way that I could store a large quantity of data for sorting.

	Don't declare it as an array.  Declare it as a pointer and malloc()
it in the program.



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