DJGPP memory allocation

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From: daniel lemon
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:24

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I'm trying to use DJGPP (GCC for DOS), and malloc () doesn't return
NULL when out of memory; it just crashes or exits with "Fatal!  Disk
full writing to swap file", depending on the memory manager used.  Our
development is targeted for systems using EMM386.  Using this memory
manager, I have the additional problem that DJGPP ignores XMS memory.

Has anyone come across these problems before?  If so, is there a known
fix?

Help!

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From: daniel@mksol.dseg.ti.com (daniel lemon)
Subject: DJGPP memory allocation
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Summary: DJGPP malloc() doesn't return NULL when out of memory
Keywords: DJGPP GCC MALLOC EMM386
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:24:50 GMT
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