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From: mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Marc J. Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: help ! Problems with TurboC graphics
Message-ID: <23530@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 88 18:13:12 GMT
References: <1020@luth.luth.se> <2818@emory.uucp> <23495@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1224@cpocd2.UUCP>
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Reply-To: mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Marc J. Sabatella)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: Compuserve p12tc.arc turboc 1.5 initgraph
Summary: memory allocation bug and fix IS for 1.5; I worded message badly

In article <1224@cpocd2.UUCP> rod@cpocd2.UUCP (Rod Rebello) writes:
>
>In article <23495@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Marc J. Sabatella) writes:
>>In article <1020@luth.luth.se> roland@sm.luth.se (Roland Hedberg) writes:
>>>
>>>... when I now place initgraph in the beginning of main() , the PC locks up.
>>>...
>>This is a known bug with the memory allocation routines in 3 of the libraries.


This IS referring to version 1.5; known effects are to cause lockup of 
initgraph() in some circumstances; this is almost CERTAINLY the cause of the
problem Roland is experiencing [as a check: try the small memory model, or
the tiny - the problem should not exist there].


>>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
>							 ^^^^^^^^^^^

What I meant by this [ you mean you couldn't figure it out? :-) ] is that the
SAME patch.com program that thousands of people already have been using to
apply fixes to version 1.0 is also used to apply these fixes, which ARE for
version 1.5.  This is kind of a shame, because the individual fix files
total around 1000 bytes, but the ARC file is considerably larger because it
includes the patch program most Compuserve Borland users already have.

This is still one of the few known bugs in version 1.5; certainly the only
catastrophic one I am aware of, and a fix is available.

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Marc Sabatella                            "I would prefer not to"
mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU                            Bartleby the Scrivener
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