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Date: | Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:17:15 EDT |
From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com> |
To: | stefans AT bauv106 DOT bauv DOT unibw-muenchen DOT de |
Cc: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | problems with memory allocation |
>The following simple program happily allocates memory until my machine dies. >Although i should have no more than approx. 150 MByte (disc + ram), it >allocates more than 300 MB before hanging. The way go32 and libc work, you could malloc(512*1024*1024) if you wanted. It doesn't count as used memory unless you *use* it. Try using calloc instead of malloc next time. DJ dj AT ctron DOT com Life is a banana.
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