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From: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manxifying Lattice Code
Message-ID: <3498@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 88 13:28:37 GMT
References: <6711@well.UUCP: <386@stsci>
Reply-To: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Patrick White)
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In article <386@stsci> berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry) writes:
>: 	pplanet = (tplanet *) malloc (sizeof(tplanet));
>: but when it tries to store to the structure, it (sometimes!) crashes with
>: Guru 3.
>
>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.

   I've got a program that malloc's more than 64K and it works fine -- in fact,
it sort of a version of empire that I've been writing/toying with.  Of course,
I'm using +pCD options on the compiles.  (could it be that malloc expects an
*unsigned int* as it's argument and this way, I get to pass it a 32-bit value?)

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

   This certainly works, but be *very* sure to free it when you are done
(Manx frees any malloc'd memory that you forgot to.


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