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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Subject: Re: "No memory" message in op/dbm test
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 13:23:02    
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
References: <1991Jun14.064604.18954@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
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In comp.lang.perl, article <1991Jun14.064604.18954@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>,
  barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) writes:
< 
<     $ perl op/dbm.t
<     1..12
<     [...]
<     ok 7
<     No memory.
<     No memory.
<     No memory.
<     ok 8

Your malloc returns NIL when being asked for zero bytes of memory, and your
DBM library doesn't like that (but doesn't die either).

Workaround: use the Perl malloc. (On my machine, it's faster anyway.)

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