From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Differences between Win 95 and Win 98
Organization: Pin Eight Software  http://pineight.8m.com/
Message-ID: <fl8ohs4nrb5r07jqqkoatedirtfhqjtblp@4ax.com>
References: <3918626E DOT B83E232C AT astro DOT lu DOT se> <391BA85A DOT 7C8DD1E5 AT astro DOT lu DOT se>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 20
X-Trace: /Kkf2Limv9amIC1976yu3bL3ZlTPFqbybe2ZpVPHGuZs3P12Sgyq9F3y1Rh3uyqTNgsNkesS+SgM!+7/RcJHwBnkgZ9XFO0a5HD/3nd0wdc2ybXNiQyh8Aa2RFjngr/gRvvWBRsb1OvEPJnF1D3ErXPpk!pyTNVQ==
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net
X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:58:27 GMT
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:58:27 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Fri, 12 May 2000 08:44:42 +0200, Stefan Spännare
<stefans AT astro DOT lu DOT se> wrote:

>My problem (see below) was not due to DJGPP or Windows 98.
>It was a classical programming error of not setting a malloced
>array to zero before using it. However I only noticed the error
>in Windows 98. It didn't emerge in Windows 95 or UNIX/Linux,
>which is somewhat strange ...

Eunuchs systems generally zero out all memory in malloc() as a
security precaution (don't want that confidential trade secret
or root password to leak into newly allocated RAM).

-- 
Damian Yerrick
"I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason."
See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html

This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to
prevent the spread of signature viruses.  http://www.mcafee.com/