Why would malloc return NULL?

Sat Nov 14 13:52:00 GMT 1998

At 09:43 AM 11/13/98 -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On 1998年11月12日, Derrick Franceschini wrote:
>>> We have ported a large Unix application to NT using Cygwin (b19) and
>> seem to have a problem with malloc returning NULL when there is still
>> plenty of unused memory. 
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>Anytime this happens, I first suspect bugs in the code instead of the
>runtime. 
>>I have code using 400M of RAM, in small and big chunks on Cygwin, and it
>works as advertised. That of course doesn't preclude bugs in Cygwin, but
>at least it shows it's not completely broken ;-)
>
In a related message I had reported a similar malloc problem happening in
gnu spell 1.0 Upon further examination the problem is indeed due a bug in
spell 1.0 and not to a bug in Cygwin. My apologies to Cygwin. I have
reported the problem to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
Pierre
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