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From: swed@aerospace.aero.org (Gregory D. Swedberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Bus error DURING call to malloc()
Keywords: help bus error malloc
Message-ID: <75367@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 12 Jun 90 15:46:50 GMT
References: <14525@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <62083@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: swed@aero.UUCP (Gregory D. Swedberg)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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	Are you ever calling realloc?  The IRIS does not seem to
implement it correctly, when reallocing to the a larger size it seems
to just return the original pointer rather than a pointer to a new
larger block.  I have had to give up on realloc on the IRIS.