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Subject:	Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date:	Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:54:33 GMT
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Les Smithson wrote: > I'm afraid this made no difference for me. I still get dll crashes. My > particular symptom is that if I make a 1 line change to legOS then download it, > it crashes straight away at the next dll. Even if I undo the change, then > rebuild & download legOS, it still crashes. I have one working copy of > legOS.srec which I'm gaurding carefully! the fix only helps for problems that arise when memory is nearly used up, and malloc() tries to use memory above the 'macic' 0xfb80 limit. - Just to make sure: (i have been caught in this trap) -- have you rebuilt your dll application against the new legOS.lds after modifying the kernel ?

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		Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
(...) Yup, did that. I've applied the following fixes to the kernel 0.2.3. Are there any I've missed? . The malloc() bug we've been discussing. . The tx_sem fix for lnp*.c . The memcpy assembler bug. I'm using gcc 2.95.2 & binutils 2.9. Can anyone (...) (27 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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		Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
(...) I'm afraid this made no difference for me. I still get dll crashes. My particular symptom is that if I make a 1 line change to legOS then download it, it crashes straight away at the next dll. Even if I undo the change, then rebuild & download (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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