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I write about X clients failing under HP-UX 7.0 with:
	 Cannot perform realloc

In article <1990Mar2.185840.24495@arnor.uucp> dgreen@cs.ucla.edu writes:
>This is exactly the problem I had.  A similar problem was reported to me
>by a colleague at Washington State University.  I posted a request for 
>help to comp.sys.hp about three weeks ago.  I received this response from
>Kris Olander, who runs on a 9000/340:

>> I've compiled X11R4 (with patched through fix-2) with very few
>> difficulties.   I wasn't able to startup X fresh from compiling until
>> I made /usr/bin/X a soft link to /usr/bin/Xhp, chmod 2755 on Xhp,xterm,
>> and xload, and finally, chgrp sys Xhp,xterm,xload.

>IF THE ABOVE METHOD SOLVES THE "Cannot perform realloc" PROBLEM, COULD
>SOMEONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY E-MAIL?  Thanks.

No it doesn't.

The correct fix came from Bob May <bobm@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> in article
<100920183@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> in comp.windows.x.

Seems under 7.0 you need to define MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL.
I did this and everything now works smoothly.

cheers
mark