Microsoft C Problem

[Bryan A. Woodruff]

In article <2646.255F599C at urchin.fidonet.org>, Bob.Stout at p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) writes:
> 
>   The MSC malloc/free problem is known and, as you note, can occasionally  
> cause problems. Since Microsoft is only a month or so away from releasing MSC  
> 6.0, as I understand it, there are no plans to provide a fix for this in MSC  
> 5.x. The Microsoft Users Journal published some code a while back to defrag  
> the heap as I recall, but I'm afraid I don't have any more details to offer.

There are replacement functions for malloc/free - not Microsoft, but
they are public domain - I have used them for approx. 1.5 yrs with no
problems.  They are available on CompuServe --- for more info write:

Bryan Woodruff,
Quality America, Inc.
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