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From: Chris Chadwick <xjk18@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: argh
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:36:18 -0800
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Ooops, sorry James. I meant to send that message to the news groups
but clicked the email button by mistake...

-Chris

 James Russell wrote:
 >
 > Nigel Critten wrote:
 > >
 > > below is what I'm doing to allocate the memory
 > >
 > > u_long *image = (u_long *)malloc ((grabwidth*grabheight/2+5)*4);
 > >
 > > this causes a freeze.
 >
 > Have you called InitHeap? You must do this before using malloc.
 >
 
 Oh. I've been using malloc/calloc for ages now without calling InitHeap
 and never had any problems. I remeber I was going to use InitHeap but
 found the parameters confusing, or something. Besides, I seem to recall
 reading somewhere that initialization code does a heap initialization,
 so an explicit InitHeap call isn't strictly necessary. What's the story?
 
 Cheers,
 
 -Chris