How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?

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How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?..

Answer / s.v.prasad reddy,lifetree

Generally using the malloc() function maximum we can
allocate the 64K memory.

If you want to allocate the memory larger than 64K then you
have to use the farmalloc() memory management function.

And one more important thing is ,Once memory is allocated
by the farmalloc(),then to free that memory we need to use
only farfree() fuction.We can't use the free() fuction to
free that memory.

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How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?..

Answer / sathish kumar

HI All,

In a book i studied that you can use far* to allocate
memory above 64k limit.

Thanks & Regards
Sathish Kumar

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How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?..

Answer / phani kumar s

by using the pointers with the structures we can allocate the
memory for the structure ,Pointers are DMA

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How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?..

Answer / dinakarangct

#include<stdio.h>
struct stud {
int i,j,k;
struct stud *next,*prev;
}**ptr;
void main(){
int i;
ptr= ( struct stud **)malloc(sizeof(struct stud*)*6400 );
for(i=0;i<6400;i++)
ptr[i]= ( struct stud *)malloc(sizeof(struct stud)*10 );
}

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How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K?..

Answer / nithya

For arrays larger than 64k use

char huge array3[100000L];

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