From: tmurez AT nospam DOT planete DOT net (Thibaut Murez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Large malloc causes GPF
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:23:09 +0100
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In article <7245e2$1lv$1 AT newsreader4 DOT core DOT theplanet DOT net>, 
dosuser AT hotmail DOT com says...
> 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.
> Help!
> 
Have you checked that the memory was successfully allocated ? if you 
haven't try, the gpf might only come from that