Allocation Limit on WINMEM32 Global32Alloc() Function

Last reviewed: July 22, 1997
Article ID: Q73677

3.00 3.10 WINDOWS kbprg

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1

WINMEM32 is a dynamic-link library (DLL) that is designed to support the 32-bit flat memory model under Windows enhanced mode.

The largest block of memory that Global32Alloc() can request is (16 megabytes -- 64K). Global32Alloc() allocates memory through the Windows kernel, which imposes this particular size limitation.

Adding the ability to process larger allocations is under consideration for a future version of Windows.

Additional reference words: 3.00 3.10
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: KrMm
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 22, 1997
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