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From: rcb@rti.UUCP (Random)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX C V2.3, VMS V4.6
Message-ID: <1812@rti.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 09:51:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 09:51:40 1987
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Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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There is one MAJOR problem with vms 4.6 C run-time library. There is
a bug in the memory allocation routines such that if you attempt to
malloc or calloc space when you are out of available virtual memory,
the routine bombs with a traceback instead of returning NULL. It is a 
relatively simple task to write versions of malloc, calloc, free and cfree
that use lib$get_vm and lib$free_vm to do the work.
-- 
					Randy Buckland (919)-541-7103
					Research Triangle Institute
					rcb@rti.rti.org [128.109.139.2]
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