Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Yet Another Turbo C Question
Message-ID: <1228@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 23:40:02 GMT
References: <42900071@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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In article <42900071@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, dkchen@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
> 	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.

malloc returns NULL when there's no more memory left to allocate.
Depending on what memory model you're using, you may not have had
very much to start with.
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