aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) (05/31/91)
This is for an acquaintance who hasn't go net access,. His problem was with AllocMem returning bad pointers. This was in code that had been running w/o problems on 2000's. Turns out that he was over-running a string allocation by one byte. This would (if the allocation was a multiple of 8) clobber the first byte of the memseg pointer that followed it. On 24 bit address space, this was alright, since the overwrite was a null byte, but for 32 bit fast addresses on the 3000, fireworks mode! So, be warned. Allan Duncan ACSnet a.duncan@trl.oz (+613) 541 6708 Internet a.duncan@trl.oz.au UUCP {uunet,hplabs,ukc}!munnari!trl.oz.au!a.duncan Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.