From: ps13 AT gauss DOT ma DOT ic DOT ac DOT uk (Mr P. Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: malloc help
Date: 3 Mar 1997 11:37:27 GMT
Organization: Imperial College, London, UK
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I have a struct

pcx_picture_type
{
...
...
...
char * buffer
}pcx_picture

and I use it this function to allocate memory for for the screen buffer

pcx_int(pcx_picture *image)
{

if(!(image->buffer = (char *)malloc(SCREEN_WIDTH * SCREEN_HEIGHT + 1)));

  printf("Could not allocate screen buffer.");

}

I have a 16 M ram 80 meg vitual ram so I guess there is plenty of memory, but
the program keeps stopping at this point saying it could not allocate memory.
This progam works fine in borland c . I was wondering if any of my syntax was
wrong for it to work in DJGPP.

**p DOT steele AT ic DOT ac DOT uk**