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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC malloc returning garbage?
Message-ID: <327@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 88 01:06:11 GMT
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In article <1451@murdu.OZ> strasser@munnari.UUCP (Mike Strasser) writes:
>
>It is called and the result cast to a pointer to a structure I use:
>
>	Sp = (Species *) malloc( sizeof( Species ) );
>
>I check for a NULL return, which does not happen.  Instead, Sp is loaded
>the value 0x00000003 every time on repeated calls! I'm assuming that the

	You probably need to pre-declare malloc():

void * malloc());

	before you call it. Otherwise, the compiler will assume that malloc()
returns an int instead of a pointer-type, and only that int gets assigned
to your pointer variable.

	Odds are, the high word if the result is a 3....

R.


Rich Siegel
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