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From: trb@stag.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Seriously Bummed
Message-ID: <218@stag.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 18:22:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: stag.218
Posted: Sat Sep 26 18:22:32 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 02:40:58 EDT
References: <214@stag.UUCP> <929@dclemans.mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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Keywords: New Rom Woes?

In article <929@dclemans.mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> dclemans@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Dave Clemans) writes:
>
>To get back to the original question about a crash under the new ROM's;
>as you read directory and file entries do you dynamically allocate space
>for them an entry at a time using "malloc"?  If so, you might be unknowingly
>hitting the 20-Malloc bug....

I had that problem at first using Megamax, but when I switched to MWC
2.0, it went away. I have gotten reports from other users of HDSCAN
saying that it seems to work fine under the new ROMS, so assuming that
the 4 meg ST's have the same 'NEW' Roms as everyone else, then there
is some more fundamental problem here (i.e. either MWC's malloc is
getting confused with 4 meg available-which I find hard to believe,
or some phantom drive is being reported when my code checks for
existing drives on a mega, or its' back to gremlins...). I will check
this out further if Atari ever starts selling mega's for real here (this is
kind of a Deja Vu situation...I remember getting into a similiar
disussion in the fall of 1984 about whether my DISKEDIT, ULTRACOPY,
and SOFTBASE would work correctly with the new ROMS on the Atari
1450XL...remember how certain we all were that there really was such a
beast, what with pictures and first hand accounts of the machine?)

  -Todd Burkey
  trb@stag.UUCP