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Article #42769Re: msc memory allocation problems
From: Mark Miller
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 17:38
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 17:38
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It's been awhile, but I had success tracking a similar bug by using
the heapcheck and heapwalk routines to report available free space. I had
a similar problem, where command.com could not be reloaded. The cause was
a hunk of memory that got "calloc"ed but never "free"d. By inserting heap
check and heapwalk at the beginning and end of each function that allocates
memory, I was able to find the bug.
Happy bug hunting,
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bcstec!misty!b-mrda!miller From: miller@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com (Mark Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: msc memory allocation problems Message-ID: <15160012@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com> Date: 19 Feb 90 17:38:47 GMT References: <13115@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplanes MR&D Lines: 19