Looking at Pathalias and Xenix
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Tue Jan 17 04:08:00 AEST 1989
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>is allocated and the smaller table is copied into it. The problem is
>that my Microport System V/AT system doesn't support allocation of bigger
>than 64K blocks, yet the situation has reached the point where pathalias
>has tried to expand to an array that takes 84K. Pushed into the 16
>bit int for call to malloc, very bad things happen.
Check to see if you have something called proctl(). Xenix had it and
one of the options was to grab a "large" piece of ram to be used with
a "huge" pointer. (Warning: I've never used the call.)
Paul Chamberlain
Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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