Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 12:50:59 -0700
From: tesla AT lamar DOT ColoState DOT EDU (Jon Nash)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Memory allocation


Hello all,

In one of the gnu news groups someone has asked about a memory allocation
error he is experiencing...  It seems that malloc() doesn't run out of
memory...  it doesn't return NULL, it just crashes with "Fatal!  Disk full
writing to swap file"...  The poster also says that when EMM386 is installed
DJGPP ignores XMS memory.

Although I haven't experienced these problems myself I am very interested in
hearing your thoughts on the possible problems - does DJGPP have a bug?
Is there a patch?

Thanks in advance!

Jon Nash
Tesla AT Lamar DOT ColoState DOT EDU