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> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:24:03 -0500
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> No great sweat doing that, but as I discovered early on malloc is
> used during initialization and if any errors occur then writing to
> stdout at least is fatal and useless.

It's fatal if you use buffered stdio functions.  If you use `write'
(or even `_write') instead, it's not fatal.  The crash message is
written using these methods, and you could do the same with some
additional text you print before you abort.

> If I have to put back in
> the debug printout mechanism for that feature the code will grow

Why do you think so?  The call to _write is already in startup code,
so you won't be bloating the code too much.

> I assume write to the stderr handle will work as well as write to
> the stdout handle (not fwrite to streams).

Yes.

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