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From: Tony Levatino <levatino@nycap.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: greets to all
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 17:38:05 -0500
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You know what the crazy thing is?  Sometimes it crashes (locks up, needs a reset
punch) BEFORE i malloc... :)
i don't understand it.  I'm not doing anything but walking a file in memory, and
WELL within limits at that...

:)
-charles

Ed Federmeyer wrote:

> Miles Buzzing wrote in message <01be3be9$6c109f40$0a3ddec2@guildfoc>...
> >Charles -
> >
> >Just on the off chance.....
> >
> >If you're using malloc() to create working space dynamically add some debug
> >code to return the allocated address. By default malloc() allocates space
> >anywhere after 0x80000000 you may find you're overwriting the NY debugger
> >workspace located just below 0x80009000.
> >
> >- Miles
>
> Yes, definitely.  I had all kinds of flaky problems with malloc() until I
> realized I
> actually needed to call InitHeap() first.  By flaky, I mean, sometimes the
> program would crash, sometimes not.  Even if I alloc'd the exact same
> size memory each time I ran!
>
> Good luck,
> EdF