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From: mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Marc J. Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: help ! Problems with TurboC graphics
Summary: known bug with memory allocation; fix available
Keywords: Compuserve p12tc.arc
Message-ID: <23495@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 2 Apr 88 19:21:08 GMT
References: <1020@luth.luth.se> <2818@emory.uucp>
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In article <1020@luth.luth.se> roland@sm.luth.se (Roland Hedberg) writes:
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>... when I now place initgraph in the beginning of main() , the PC locks up.
>...
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>The program is all C , no other language .

This is a known bug with the memory allocation routines in 3 of the libraries.
There is a fix available on Compuserve called p12tc.arc; it includes the
patch program used to apply the (numerous) bug fixes to version 1.0, the
individual patch files, and a batch program which automates the process.
I am not sure about the copyright policy on these published bug fixes, or I
would post the file here (or mail it to those interested).  There is no
reference to copyright anywhere in the documentation files.

Marc Sabatella
mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU