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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, CBFalconer wrote:

> Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> > The reason for
> > the bison failure was that I allocated an string using strlen()
> > without adding one byte more for the terminating '\0'. Later when
> > this string was free()ed with djdev204 the program crashed. But
> > free() of djdev203 never complained abuot this so I never noticed
> > this bug.

That's why it would be good to test programs with YAMD; it catches any
overrun of malloced buffers reliably.

> Does this mean that my nmalloc is now incorporated in 2.04?

I think so.  The malloc of 2.03 is buggy, and the earlier malloc from
BSD wasn't very good either, so clearly nmalloc is the best we've got.

> I know I promised to finish the memalign alteration, and I did
> start it, but I have just returned from the hospital with a triple
> bypass.

I'm sorry to hear that.  Hope you get well soon.

> At any rate, I have done no more work on memalign, and
> probably won't for at least the next month.

In that case we probably should release 2.04 with the current memalign.
It seems to be quite reliable after fixing the bugs I reported months
ago.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/