Manx bug?

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From: Erik J. Bennett
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1988 03:45

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Why doesn't this work?

        objectTable = (struct objectStruct *)
                calloc((unsigned) 9000, 10);

It needs to allocate 90000 bytes.  It doesn't.  It allocate (90000-6553?)
bytes.  I think this is an overflow error.  My real question is, How do
I get around this barrier?

-Erik
bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu

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From: bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu (Erik J. Bennett)
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Subject: Manx bug?
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