Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:17:15 EDT
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To:	stefans AT bauv106 DOT bauv DOT unibw-muenchen DOT de
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	problems with memory allocation

>The following simple program happily allocates memory until my machine dies.
>Although i should have no more than approx. 150 MByte (disc + ram), it
>allocates more than 300 MB before hanging.

The way go32 and libc work, you could malloc(512*1024*1024) if you
wanted.  It doesn't count as used memory unless you *use* it.  Try
using calloc instead of malloc next time.

DJ
dj AT ctron DOT com
Life is a banana.

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