Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:07:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: My 3d-Engine acts as if on drugs
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Dr. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E1s=20S=F3lyom?= wrote:

> Most probably. But: Can it be caused by some compiler problems? I have a code
> that is working when compiled with DJGPP V2.1 and fails with GPFs when
> compiled with V2.2.

The version of malloc that comes with v2.02 is much less tolerant to code 
that overwrites the end of allocated buffers or frees an already free'd 
buffer, because it doesn't put slack space there.  A telltale sign of this 
is a GPF inside malloc or free.