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From: andrew@alberta.UUCP (Andrew Folkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: malloc in MSC 4.0 ?
Message-ID: <138@cadomin.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 02:34:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 02:34:37 1987
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Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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Keywords: malloc microsoft broken


Are Microsoft's malloc() routines broken?  Today I found that a structure
being allocated in one file was being placed in a character array in 
another file.  Moving the array to the start of the file solved that
problem, but I'm wondering what else is going on that I should worry
about.  I'm seriously worried about realloc(), just repeatedly calling it
with different sizes eventually locks up the machine.  This is a true-blue
AT, using the default memory model (small,  I believe).
 
On a related topic, didn't a replacement for malloc() float by a while
ago (>6 months)?  I thought I saved it, but it seems to have vanished.
Anyone out there care to email me a copy?

AtDhVaAnNkCsE
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Andrew Folkins    ...ihnp4!alberta!andrew    53 24' N, 113 30' W
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