From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: malloc() bug?
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 02:52:06 -0800
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Nicola Gaggi wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem:
> I am writing a program that need to dinamically allocate a huge number
> of
> little buffers (about 10 bytes each), but I have run into problem with
> malloc(), i receive SIGSEGV inside the malloc() code.
> The program code seems correct, and anyway it is not particularly
> complicate, it only performs some allocation and copy, so what it can
> be?

Sounds like it's a strange problem with your code.  Post a sample
program that exhibits the behavior but is as small as you can make it
and still reliably reproduce the problem.

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