C and AWK questions (longish)
sjh at PURDUE.ARPA
sjh at PURDUE.ARPA
Thu Aug 16 05:09:00 AEST 1984
From: Steve Holmes <sjh at PURDUE.ARPA>
>> We are searching for debugging techniques to track down malloc/realloc
>> aborts. Occasionally, our programs get memory faults within the stdio's
>> _flsbuf() subroutine. Does anyone have hints on tracking down the types of
>> things that would clobber the malloc buffers?
>
>I believe there are DEBUG defines you can turn on in the malloc source
>to compile a debugging version (depending on your OS).
WRT the malloc problem: I had the same problem for which the solution was
to initialize the pointers to the various blocks of storage to null on the
first call. I don't have the code handy but could dig it up if needed.
Steve Holmes
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