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From: walter (Walter Steinemann)
Subject: HELP - XmStringCreateLtoR
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.192748.12558@hyper.hyper.com>
Sender: walter@hyper.hyper.com (Walter Steinemann)
Organization: HyperCube Inc.
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 19:27:48 GMT


I have the following in many places within my code:

	char msg[80];
	XmString	xmMessage;

	... msg gets seto to some short string (20-30 bytes)...

	xmMessage = XmStringCreateLtoR( msg, XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET );


I get the message "Error: Cannot perform malloc" (nothing else) and my
application exits (no core file), but not always on the same call to
XmStringCreateLtoR.  My application code does not use this string, but
I have found that this string is in libXt.a, in the Alloc.c section.

I thought perhaps the Motif Library had some build in limit on the
number of compound strings, so I inserted calls to XmStringFree for
all my XmStringCreates - but the error still occurs.  [BTW, when is it
safe to do the free? ... after that SetArg or after the SetValues, or
does it need to be done much later??]

Am I doing something wrong? Is something wrong with Motif or Xt?
We have Motif 1.1.1 and IRIX 3.3.2 on a PI 4D/25.

Thanks for any help you can give me,
-- WalteR --
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Walter R. Steinemann                    HYPERCUBE, INC.
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Phone:  (519) 725-4040                  Waterloo, Ontario
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