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Subject: Re:  C and AWK questions
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 11:07:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 11:07:01 1984
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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.