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From: berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manxifying Lattice Code
Message-ID: <386@stsci>
Date: 4 Aug 88 14:15:37 GMT
References: <6711@well.UUCP:
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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From article <6711@well.UUCP:, by shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson):
: 
: I'm trying to convert a program that compiles under Lattice C into a Manx C
: program, and I've run into weird snags.  (This is "Conquest" from an early

: 	pplanet = (tplanet *) malloc (sizeof(tplanet));
: 
: but when it tries to store to the structure, it (sometimes!) crashes with
: Guru 3.  The statement in question is:

: 		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
: 		Action by HAVOC		(shf@Solar.Stanford.EDU)

How big is sizeof(tplanet)?  Manx malloc() wants its argument to be a word, so
if it's bigger than 64K it won't work correctly.

If that's the case, try AllocMem().

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