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From: dkchen@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Yet Another Turbo C Question
Message-ID: <42900071@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 10:39:24 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!dkchen    Mar 21 23:53:00 1990


Hi, netters:

	Recently I tried to port my program from an unix machine to my 386/20
	running turbo/c. To my surprise, turbo/c sometimes returned ds:0000 from
	the malloc routine. Consecutive malloc will not solve this problem.
	I assume ds:0000 should be reserved as 'nil'. And printing data pointed
	by pointer with value ds:0000 actually generate (null) as output. Am I
	missing anything (such as compiler switches, etc.)? The turbo/c I used
	is version 2.0. All comment are appreciated.

Dean