From:	Mark Elliott <elliott AT uni-leipzig DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: upgrade chaos
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:36:39 +0100
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> To clarify, I upgraded from v2.01, and am using code originally written for Borland
> C, in which it is sometimes necessary to free some more memory than was originally
> allocated (i.e. free(var+4);). Given that I kept this style, the explanation above
> probably accounts for my problems, thanks a lot for pointing this out ( - in
> advance, I haven't tested my code without the modification yet).

free(var) continues to crash when memory was not originally allocated by malloc, -
memset seems to work as an alternative. with respect to free(var+4); as I understood
it, this was a necessity in Borland because you could never guaruntee deallocating as
much as you had allocated.

Anyhow, thanks for the crosspostings on this, my problem has been resolved.

Mark

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