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From: | j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com |
Message-Id: | <199604100421.AA172870100@relay1.geis.com> |
Date: | Wed, 10 Apr 96 03:59:00 UTC 0000 |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
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Subject: | malloc crash |
Reply to message 5073138 from JESUS AT MATRUST on 04/09/96 4:42AM > for (i = 0; i < 5000; i++) > { > malloc (10000); > printf ("%d\n", i); > } This may not be your problem, but shouldn't you test to see if malloc() fails before continuing in your loop? Allocating fifty (or even ten) megabytes of memory is hardly a guaranteed proposition. On the other hand, I can see no reason why malloc would cause a crash if it ran out of memory...
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