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Subject: Re: Malloc/free DJGPP code
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> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:40:10 GMT
> 
> I suspect the first malloc call is made before the global arena is
> setup.

No, that's not true, but it did give me a clue of what's happening:
the conio functions need initialization.  That initialization runs
from a static constructor, which is called just before `main'.  But
malloc is called before that, from the startup code, so you end up
invoking cprintf without it being properly initialized.

My bad, I should have thought about this before.

So DJ's advice, to use sprintf and then write the buffer with a call
to the function `write', is better.

> This is annoying.  If other things aren't set up, I am very leery
> of calling anything whatsoever at this point.  Who knows what is
> getting written on.

Don't give up ;-)