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From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
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Subject: Heap structure
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:46:19 -0500
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I have a DJGPP program that is bombing with a SIGSEGV error.  I have
reason to believe that the program has an array overflow that is
corrupting the structure of the heap.  (The program actually bombs in a
malloc call inside fprintf, but at this point I have no convincing
reason to believe that a system function bug is to blame.)

I would like to write a subroutine that walks the heap and checks its
integrity, so that I can isolate the bug.  Another correspondent to
c.o.m.d. was interested in writing a heap-checker some time ago, but I
haven't heard any more about it.

Does anyone know where the heap structure is documented, or is the
malloc.c source the only documentation?

-Eric Rudd
rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com