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From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Subject: CWSDPMI bug [was Infernal compiler error.]
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Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:56:58 GMT
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Charles Sandmann (sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu) wrote:
: Its a CWSDPMI bug.  CWSDPMI ran out of memory zones (after around 3000
: sbrk calls).  This can be fixed by bumping the internal heap size.  I
: wrote a little program which can adjust this in the binary if anyone
: needs it.  This particular C++ file needed 16Mb of VM to compile.

Is a program which does a lot of small malloc's likely to trigger this
bug?