Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!sun!nelson
From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: bug in Turbo C 1.5's brk()
Message-ID: <267@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 88 14:10:13 GMT
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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Be warned that Turbo C 1.0 AND 1.5's brk function returns "the wrong
thing".  On success, TC's brk() returns the new break level, while
the manual insists that it should (and Unix's brk() does) return 0.  The
error return, -1, is correct.
-russ