From:	stefans AT bauv106 DOT bauv DOT unibw-muenchen DOT de (Stefan Schwarz)
Subject:	problems with memory allocation
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP mailing list)
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 92 15:42:39 MET

The following simple program happily allocates memory until my machine dies.
Although i should have no more than approx. 150 MByte (disc + ram), it
allocates more than 300 MB before hanging.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

main ()
{
	unsigned short int max = ~0;  /*should be a block of 64 Kb*/
	size_t bytes = max; 
	unsigned long mem = 0L;

	setbuf (stdout,NULL);
	while (malloc(bytes))
	{
		mem += bytes;
		printf ("\r%.3f MBytes allocated",mem / 1024. /1024.);
	}
}

Any ideas what's going wrong,
Stefan
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Stefan Schwarz                            University of the armed forces, Munich
Laboratory for graphical data processing  W-8014 Neubiberg, FRG
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