R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com (04/27/91)
> >Humph. TOS 1.4 and upwards have NO PROBLEMS with Malloc that have been >reported to me. > >============================================ >Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. >reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt Well, I have TOS 1.4 and made a text editor program called SEDT crash. When I reported the problem to the author of SEDT he traced it back to the fact that his library was using Malloc directly for all allocations. When he changed to a different memory allocation algorithm the problem went away. Also I just rewrote the memory allocation algorithm for a Modula-2 I have that appeared to be using Malloc directly... a short test program using their library crashed the computer (2 bombs) after a bit over 800 small allocations. My rewrite made it to 10000 small allocations (from a single large Malloced block) with no problems. R. Tim Coslet Usenet: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com BIX: r.tim_coslet California could REALLY use 40 days and 40 nights of rain right now!