Microsoft KB Archive/66451

Based Pointers and Based Memory Allocation Routines

PSS ID Number: Q66451 Article last modified on 11-05-1993

3.00 MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

Microsoft C version 6.00 based pointers and based heap management routines are not yet useful for Windows programmers. Two reasons for this are as follows: 1. The based heap allocation routines cannot be used in the Windows environment because they have not been made “Windows-compatible.” 2. If the based heap routines are not used, but based segment pointers are used, extra data segments will be created. This forces the windows application to be treated as “large-model,” which is not recommended in Windows because users cannot run more than one instance of the application.

Additional reference words: 3.00 KBCategory: KBSubcategory: KrModlsCusted Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.