Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C and AWK questions Message-ID: <12413@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 11:07:01 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12413 Posted: Tue Aug 14 11:07:01 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:16:39 EDT Lines: 11 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)There is a bug in the realloc routine through UNIX System III. There are some other subtler bugs in all mallocs through UNIX System V Release 1. My advice is to find a working malloc and substitute it for the one in your C library. Most versions of malloc can be conditionally recompiled to produce a fairly strict checking version for debugging. This will usually abort with a core dump as soon as something goes wrong with malloc-controlled storage.