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From: awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Subject: malloc behaviour
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Date: 26 Sep 88 10:01:00 GMT
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Nf-From: pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!awylie    Sep 26 10:01:00 1988


Using the Zortech/Datalight C compiler in d model (small code, large data)
I find that malloc fails when there are still about 30 Kbytes of memory
'left' at the high end. Does anyone understand this? Has it to do with the
transient part of COMMAND? I dont know if other compilers do this also.

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