From:	Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
Subject:	Re: Why would malloc return NULL?
14 Nov 1998 20:36:22 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<3.0.5.32.19981114150252.00899740.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ne.mediaone.net>
References:	Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
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To:	Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>,
	Derrick Franceschini <francesd AT adstii DOT com>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 09:43 AM 11/13/98 -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Derrick Franceschini wrote:
>
>> We have ported a large Unix application to NT using Cygwin (b19) and
>> seem to have a problem with malloc returning NULL when there is still
>> plenty of unused memory.  
[]

>Anytime this happens, I first suspect bugs in the code instead of the
>runtime. 
>
>I have code using 400M of RAM, in small and big chunks on Cygwin, and it
>works as advertised. That of course doesn't preclude bugs in Cygwin, but
>at least it shows it's not completely broken ;-)
>

In a related message I had reported a similar malloc problem happening in
gnu spell 1.0  Upon further examination the problem is indeed due a bug in
spell 1.0 and not to a bug in Cygwin. My apologies to Cygwin. I have
reported the problem to bug-gnu-utils AT prep DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu

Pierre

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