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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Help with malloc()
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Date: 21 Mar 91 01:03:07 GMT
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    I have a program that runs just fine on a DEC3100 and a Sparc 1, but
doesn't run correctly on my NeXT.  It acts line the static buffer used
by strtok is being written over by another part of my code.  This leads
to two possibilities, one is that my code is broken on all of the machines,
but I haven't gotten bitten yet on the other platforms, or there is a bug
in the malloc on the NeXT.  I had read that there was some problem with
alloc and malloc on the NeXT (in an article on comp.sys.next).  Is there
any truth to a possible bug in malloc?  

I haven't used the malloc debug stuff yet, so if you have any helpful pointers
on that, I would appreciate that info also.

Oh, lets see.  The program is straight c code on a NeXTstation slab with
8 meg of memory running OS 2.0.

Since I need this ASAP, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew
zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu