Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:36:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: malloc() problem, DJDEV 203
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On 3 Jul 2001, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> > I recently found a nasty bug in gmalloc, whereby large allocation 
> > requests were treated as negative numbers in some of the subroutines of
> > gmalloc.  It's quite possible that the loop you see is due to that.
> > (The reason of the bug was that they mixed signed and unsigned, if 
> > someone's interested.)
> 
> Definitely possible. Sorry I cannot provide more info at this point.

No need to be sorry.  Thanks for testing this.