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From: paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Bus error DURING call to malloc()
Keywords: help bus error malloc
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.211156.16153@calgary.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 90 21:11:56 GMT
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In article <14525@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, taylorr@glycine.cs.unc.edu (Russell Taylor) writes:
> 
> 	We are running OS 3.2.2 on an IRIS 4D/240GTX.  I ran a program and
> got the proverbial 'Bus error (core dumped)' message.  The catch is that
> when I run dbx and look for the error, it tells me that the error occured
> IN malloc():
> 
> ....Source (of malloc.c) not available...
> 
> 	There are several calls to malloc() in the code.  There have been
> successful calls before this call is made.  All calls are passed constant
> references, and this code compiles and runs correctly on a variety of other
> machines (VAX, sun 4, DecStation).
> 
> 	Is there a known bug (and hopefully fix) for this?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Russell Taylor
> 	taylorr@cs.unc.edu


    In the files that use malloc add the following..
    #include <malloc.h>

     then when compiling add '-lmalloc' to your list of libraries. I have
  had this problem before and this cleared it up.

   Note: this does not 'fix' the problem.. you are now using a different
     malloc.

   Trev

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