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From: bryan@quame.UUCP (Bryan A. Woodruff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Microsoft C Problem
Summary: Microsoft 5.1 malloc/free problem
Message-ID: <114@quame.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 18:04:14 GMT
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In article <2646.255F599C@urchin.fidonet.org>, Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) writes:
> 
>   The MSC malloc/free problem is known and, as you note, can occasionally  
> cause problems. Since Microsoft is only a month or so away from releasing MSC  
> 6.0, as I understand it, there are no plans to provide a fix for this in MSC  
> 5.x. The Microsoft Users Journal published some code a while back to defrag  
> the heap as I recall, but I'm afraid I don't have any more details to offer.

There are replacement functions for malloc/free - not Microsoft, but
they are public domain - I have used them for approx. 1.5 yrs with no
problems.  They are available on CompuServe --- for more info write:

Bryan Woodruff,
Quality America, Inc.
(uucp: ...!uunet!quame!bryan (bryan@quame.uu.NET))