Talk:Zone memory

How do DOS memory allocation routines can be something comparative with malloc and free?

malloc and free are C RTL functions, different in every EXE !

Same now ! only a few programs use Windows or Linux heap management, instead they get memory range from OS and then split it to smaller pieces internally.


 * This probably refers to DOS INT 21h functions 48 (allocate memory) and 49 (free allocated memory), or their protected-mode equivalents in a DOS extender. I don't know if most DOS compilers would use these calls directly, or manage the memory more like other mallocs, by allocating large chunks at a time and doleing out smaller pieces as they're requested. CODOR 20:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)