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From: jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Jeffrey Boser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Novice question about malloc() in Think C
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Date: 26 Feb 91 00:21:53 GMT
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cs483106@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs483106) writes:
> In article <12591@helios.TAMU.EDU> n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writ
> >What I did was to surround every malloc() call with this:
> >#ifdef THINK_C
> >   x = (char *)NewPtr((long)sizeof(char));
> >#else
> >   x = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char));
> >#endif
> I too have had problems with THINK C's malloc. I have taken the easy way out
> and simply ripped everything out of alloc.c, and replaced it with glue code 
> to the Inside Mac equivalents. (I got too annoyed at doing a #define for ever
> malloc I used!)

ahehm!  listen up folks:

THINK C Standard Libraries Reference, convieniently under malloc:

#include <stdlib.h>
void *malloc(size_t size);

come on!  if you do not include the header file, how can you expect
it to work?


.....Jeff