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Subject: Re: Novice question about malloc() in Think C
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Date: 25 Feb 91 20:21:56 GMT
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In article <12591@helios.TAMU.EDU> n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes:
>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 also added this:
>#ifdef THINK_C
>#define free(x)  DisposPtr((x))
>#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 every
malloc I used!) I did the job about a month ago, It took me about an hour
(I'm not all that great at 'asm' programming), and seems to be working great.
actually, quite a bit of the original stuff can be used as examples of how
to call NewPtr from an 'asm' directive. 

"Pope" Q.E.D
Michael Kohne