In article <37ad1977@news.povray.org> , "Steve Horn <horn <dot> 74 @ osu" 
<"dot> edu."> wrote:

> I have recently discovered that POV_MALLOC() is just a
> container-function for the regular ANSI C function malloc().  Since when
> has malloc() been able to access EMS?  In all my other C and C++
> compilers, malloc() can only get space off the heap,  i.e. you are
> limited to the base 640K.    Is this a Win95 issue? Or a flat-model
> memory issue?     I expected to see complicated DPMI interfacing in the
> source, and all I found was POV_MALLOC().   My question is: what is this
> hidden memory "trick" that I don't know about.  Thanks,

Just a correct compiler setting and a good library allowing 32 bit
addressing under DOS - you are talking about DOS also the other question you
posted in this NG is Visual C++ related, right?
Or are you wondering about the difference between Win16 and Win32
applications?


    Thorsten


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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany

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