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Subject: Re: malloc in LSC
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Date: 20 Jul 89 23:03:57 GMT
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> Are there any known problems with malloc, calloc, etc in LSC?

> At first, malloc() was returning suspiciously low addresses (4 digit hex
> numbers, so < 64K).

I had a similiar problem.  Make sure you are including stdio.h or it will 
give you an integer instead of a long as the return value.  You can detect
this because all of your values will be 16 bits or <64K.  

Better method is to just call NewPtr();

Michael Rutman
Softmed