Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:05:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ingo Stierand <stierand AT informatik DOT uni-hildesheim DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: malloc and SIGSEGV
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Ingo Stierand wrote:

> I have a little problem with malloc. In the X'th malloc my program
> will abort with SIGSEGV. Is this a known problem?

Whether this is a known problem, depends on your answers to the following 
questions.

	1) How many calls to malloc does it take, and how much memory (in
bytes) can you allocate before you get SIGSEGV? 

	2) Do you use CWSDPMI as your DPMI server?  If so, which version 
of CWSDPMI?