Ok, I feel stupid. I forgot to check my syslog, heh...
malloc failure: Cannot allocate memory
Hrm...
I assume this means the machine just ran outta free RAM, right?
Melen
Allanthya.org 4000
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Daniel Koepke wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, blah wrote:
>
> ->#define CREATE(result, type, number) do {\
> -> if (!((result) = (type *) calloc ((number), sizeof(type))))\
> -> { perror("malloc failure"); abort(); } } while(0)
> ->
> ->So if I'm understanding correctly, it tried to allocate some memory,
> ->couldn't, and crashed (first, is this assumption correct???).
>
> If it's crashing in CREATE, then when it crashes it should send out a
> line, "malloc failure:" followed by a brief description of what went
> wrong. That line should help you.
>
> -dak
>
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