From:	Steve Whitney <swhitney AT platinum DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP hates me!
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:24:22 -0500
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Peter White wrote:
> 
> Well, maybe it doesn't, but it's acting like it does at the moment. Earlier
> today I was working on my completely amazing game when I stumbled across a
> couple of problems. The first is that I keep getting General Protection
> Faults in one module which I'm testing. It allocates lots of small chunks
> of memory for linked lists and stuff and works pretty well if I reduce the
> number of mallocs, but that reduces the effectiveness of the game. I'm not
> allocating anything near the 16 megabytes of free memory either.
> 
> The second problem is with my script language module, which at the moment
> compiles fine, but refuses to run. I've tried to use a debugger with it,
> but the program exits with a page fault _before_ it gets to main! This
> program was working until I made it slightly more complicated.
> 
> Help me please!

Hi Peter, 

   I don't know your code, but maybe you could allocate a few large
memory areas and just use pointers into this memory. Use typedef
structures and just allocate for the sizeof(typedef)*num objects. 

I hope this helps

    -Steve

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