Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!toma From: toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: signal 10 in malloc call??? Message-ID: <4016@killer.UUCP> Date: 8 May 88 05:40:25 GMT References: <3989@killer.UUCP> <640@vsi.UUCP> Organization: The Org. for the Disorg. of Org. Lines: 25 Keywords: sys V rel 3.1, died in malloc? Summary: Straight from the horses mouth? I want to thank all of you for the responses... Summary of my Quest... I went through that stuff with a FINE tooth comb and didn't find didley - (excuse the Texas accent...) After much time on the phone with an AT&T techie, I was told that they had experienced problems in malloc (core dumps and such) when it had been used excessively with small blocks, as I was doing, and that this was something to do with the free memory stuff getting garbled up... He told me to use the special malloc(3X) library with '-lmalloc' on the cc command line. I did this and the problem has gone away!!! "Thank you Antie Em, I'm not CRAZY!!!" Thanks again for all the help... Tom --- UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!toma -- ------------- Tom Armistead UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!toma