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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: Re: Help with access violation needed...
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Date: 15 Dec 89 22:53:55 GMT
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Bruce Tanner writes:...
     
>I ran into one of these awhile back, but it was reproducible - at least for
>the moment.  I tracked it to a descriptor being trashed by malloc!
>
>Not knowing whether it was a bug in malloc, or something done in a prior
>call, I punted.
>
>I put the following in one of the header files:
>
>#define malloc VAXC$MALLOC_OPT
>#define calloc VAXC$CALLOC_OPT
>#define realloc VAXC$REALLOC_OPT
>#define free VAXC$FREE_OPT
>#define cfree VAXC$CFREE_OPT
>
>I may have just moved memory around enough to wipe out some other
>location, but I don't think I've seen an ACCVIO since.
     
I have also put these lines into NEWSINCLUDE.H, and haven't seen a problem with
using these definitions so far......
     
Thanks Bruce,
     
Geoff Huston