Date:	Sun, 8 Nov 1998 16:51:54 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Chris Jones <dosuser AT hotmail DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Large malloc causes GPF
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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Chris Jones wrote:

> Whenever I use malloc to allocate a large block of memory, for example 2 Mb,
> subsequent calls to malloc (even for small amounts of memory) cause a
> General Protection Fault.

Please throw together a short test program which shows this problem and 
post the source here.  

2MB is not considered to be ``large'' by DJGPP standards; I have seen
programs that allocate considerably more than that and still can allocate
memory after that.

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