From: "Graham Reeds" <grahamr AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with allocating memory for linked lists.
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:22:20 -0000
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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> Sorry, but that description is just too imprecise for anyone likely to
> be able to help you. Please minimize your code down to the smallest
> you can up with that still shows the problem, and send it, along with
> as precise an error description as you can get: crash dumps, error
> messages, whatever: send it.
>
> Just try to keep in mind that none of us is clairvoyant...

I know you aren't clairvoyant.  I was trying not to post a hundred lines of
code.  Anyway, it's all fairly academic since a friend of mine fired several
suggestions at me, one of which hit the target: I was allocating memory for
the linkedlist_t structure, which is a pointer to record_t, but I wasn't
allocating memory for record_t, and ergo it died a horrible death.  Why it
worked previously without error is anyones guess.

However, slightly off topic, when compiled under VC6 the line containing
record->sortkey = ((rand()) % 1000000) - 500000;
only produces numbers under 0.  Anyway, that line is just for testing so I'm
not too bothered really.

Thanks for responding promptly.

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