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Subject: Re: Malloc/free DJGPP code
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:11:35 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:08:10 GMT
> >
> > > And if unbuffered I/O is too slow, call setvbuf with a suitable buffer
> > > instead.  That should avoid the need to call malloc the first time printf
> > > is called.
> >
> > Nope, that didn't do it.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot that malloc is called in the startup code, so calling
> setvbuf in `main' is too late.
> 
> I guess the easiest way out of this mess is to use cprintf instead of
> printf.  Or move the setvbuf call into malloc itself, before the
> first printf (with some kind of static flag, to do that only once).

Well, back to the drawing board.  Something that is isolated to
the malloc module is preferable.  I guess I will first look up
cprintf.

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