Subject: Re: malloc bug?
To: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 18:26:41 -0600 (CST)
Cc: enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough DJ Delorie said:
> djgpp's default malloc is pretty lame about checking for corruption.
> The most common case is accessing data outside what you allocated,
> like going off the end of an array.  This causes the NEXT malloc to
> fail, in a seemingly unrelated location.

Hmm... I seem to remember that the default malloc() in DJGPP is
the freely distributable BSD version, correct?

The gnu malloc should be fairly easy to port to djgpp, I would
expect, and one could use that as a debugging version (I think
it's GPLed, though, and so for distributing binaries, one would
prolly want to use the BSD version anyway).

Has anyone done this yet?
mrc
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