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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: malloc without malice
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:21:42 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> I am getting a segmentation fault in malloc().

These are almost always caused by over/under writing the allocated block,
which destroys the control information in the malloc control areas.