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(...) Ben you were right! I replace the malloc/free routines with a very simple array based allocation scheme and everything works great. I guess the other malloc I grabbed off the net wasn't any good either. Thanks! (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Not necessarily - it may be that the replacement happens to put things were some memory corruption doesn't hit them... Cheers, Ben. (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You may still have a stack overflow issue, since if your malloc replacement doesn't maintain pointer chains you may not notice if memory gets trashed. John A. Tamplin Traveller Information Services jat@Traveller.COM 2104 West Ferry Way (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Not sure if this is your problem, but most malloc implementations are not thread safe. Try putting your old malloc back with a lock around it and see if that improves it. -Allen -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I did make several changes to the malloc I found on the net. In the init fuction I created an mm_semaphore with sem_init. In both the malloc and the free functions I sandwiched the code between a sem_wait and sem_post call. This still had (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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