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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
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