x_haraldsen@INGER.ARPA ("TORE HARALDSEN") (01/28/88)
My old C utilities are failing after we installed VMS 4.6. I have traced the problems down to a sequence of malloc ... realloc ... free where the return value from malloc is stored in the address part of a standard VMS descriptor. The following realloc fails, and if realloc is removed, the free fails anyway. The code goes somewhat like this: fdl$desc->dsc$a_pointer = malloc (4096); ... fdl$desc->dsc$a_pointer = realloc (fdl$desc->dsc$a_pointer, newsz); ... free (fdl$desc->dsc$a_pointer); (writing from natures memory, my C is not that strong...) I have tried recompiling and reloading (i loaded with re-entrant VAXCRTL since disk space is scarce on my little machine), but to no avail. Anybody know what's wrong and how to get around it?? Tore Haraldsen University of Oslo Box 1059 Blindern N - 0316 Oslo 3 Norway x_haraldsen@inger.uio.no ------ -------