From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 03:59:00 UTC 0000
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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...