From: aroach DOT delete AT nospam DOT start DOT com DOT au (Andrew Roach)
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Subject: Re: Differences between Win 95 and Win 98
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On Fri, 12 May 2000 08:44:42 +0200, Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sp=E4nnare?=
<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 ...

I wrote a program under DJGPP which worked fine for me under win 3.1 (which is
what I use). People using it with 95 also had no problem, but people using it
under 98 kept getting crashes. I eventually tracked it back to not zeroing
malloced arrays as well.