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From: jog@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu (Ashwini )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Failure INSIDE malloc() ??
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.131709.13260@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 13:17:09 GMT
Sender: jog@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Ashwini )
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Hello Everyone, 

I'm having a problem with malloc routine. I have a large program,
so I may run out of memory (im using free wherever possible) 
but my program still crashes INSIDE malloc. Isnt this routine 
supposed to return a null pointer if it runs out of allocatable
memory? The program crashes at the following statement which is
inside malloc.(got by running through dbx).

movb $ffffffff, (r10)

I couldnt find anything in the faq list.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ashwini			jog@ecs.umass.edu