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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Malloc problems in SCO Unix.
Message-ID: <1991Jun01.021816.10745@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Jun 91 02:18:16 GMT
References: <1991May31.195543.4277@otsc.eds.com>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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ingle_le@tsca02.uucp (Ligia Ingle) writes:

>I am porting a C program from SunOS 4.0.3 to SCO Unix 1.0.  SCO runs on
>a 386 25Mgz with 8 MB of main memory. The executable is 308159 bytes and
>it crashes on Unix commands that allocate memory. For example, the malloc
>executed from an opendir causes a crash. There is available memory on the
>system but I keep experiencing these crashes.

Pick up a copy of my malloc debugging library from your friendly 
neighborhood comp.sources.unix archive and it will point you towards
the cause of your problems.  If you can't find it anywhere, let me know.

Boy, this is starting to sound like a broken record.
-- 
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