From: Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr (Pierre A. Humblet) Subject: Re: Why would malloc return NULL? 14 Nov 1998 20:36:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981114150252.00899740.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ne.mediaone.net> References: Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr (Pierre A. Humblet) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mumit Khan , Derrick Franceschini Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 09:43 AM 11/13/98 -0600, Mumit Khan wrote: >On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Derrick Franceschini wrote: > >> We have ported a large Unix application to NT using Cygwin (b19) and >> seem to have a problem with malloc returning NULL when there is still >> plenty of unused memory. [] >Anytime this happens, I first suspect bugs in the code instead of the >runtime. > >I have code using 400M of RAM, in small and big chunks on Cygwin, and it >works as advertised. That of course doesn't preclude bugs in Cygwin, but >at least it shows it's not completely broken ;-) > In a related message I had reported a similar malloc problem happening in gnu spell 1.0 Upon further examination the problem is indeed due a bug in spell 1.0 and not to a bug in Cygwin. My apologies to Cygwin. I have reported the problem to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Pierre - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".