🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

  I was curious to see how OS/2 handled malloc()ing big chunks of
memory, so I wrote a quick and really-dirty program last night to
test out some stuff.  Anyway, the program dumped core before
completing.  Here is a copy of the code and following that is a
copy of what was displayed when the program dumped.  By the way,
I used "icc -c-" and "icc -c- -gd+" to compile the program, but the
same thing happened either way.

---source code---

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  int k = 0;
  int *p;
  setbuf(stdout,NULL); setbuf(stdin,NULL);
  p = (int *) malloc(12000000);  /* bytes */
  printf("\n malloced 12000000 bytes.");
  while(k <           10000000 )
  {
    p[k] = 1;
    k++;
    if(k % 10000 == 0)
      putchar('.');
  }
  free(p);
  printf("\n freed 12000000 bytes.\n");
}

---output---

[d:\taki\misc\misc1]MAL.exe

 malloced 12000000 bytes........................................................
................................................................................
................................................................................
................................................................................
.....General Protection Fault exception occurred at EIP = 0001005B on thread 000
1.
Register Dump at point of exception:
EAX = 000D0010    EBX = 00000000  ECX = 002DC7FC    EDX = 0000013C
EBP = 00022C3C    EDI = 00000000  ESI = 00000000    ESP = 00022C0C
CS =     005B  CSLIM = 1BFFFFFF   DS =     0053  DSLIM = 1BFFFFFF
ES =     0053  ESLIM = 1BFFFFFF   FS =     150B  FSLIM = 00000030
GS =     0000  GSLIM = 00000000   SS =     0053  SSLIM = 1BFFFFFF
Process terminating.


I still had plenty of space left on my swap partition, so I don't know
why it crapped out.  Any info would be appreciated.  Thanks.

  P. Takis Skagos
  (skagos@cs.uregina.ca)