Re: realloc bug in Emacs 18.53

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From: Christopher A. Welty
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1989 15:20

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In article <8902250646.AA00675@drakes.ai.sri.com> pereira@AI.SRI.COM (Fernando Pereira) writes:
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>Changes to malloc.c in version 18.53 broke realloc. This causes
>problems for the Sun support code because SunView functions call
>realloc. In particular, Emacs fails an integrity check in free and
>dumps core when menu_destroy (a SunView function) tries to free a
>malloc block whose header has been corrupted by realloc. The changes
>below solve the problem

Before I make these changes myself I'm wondering if anyone else has
had trouble with it, they seem pretty harmless, but I'm always wary of
mucking with the emacs memory management stuff...I haven't seen any
other comments on this bug in this group.

Christopher Welty  ---  Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs | "Porsche:  Fahren in
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Subject: Re: realloc bug in Emacs 18.53
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