Author: John Scalo
Date: 10:55:29 08/18/98
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On August 18, 1998 at 05:04:03, Guido Schimmels wrote: >These functions are rarely used by mac-programmers, thus compiler-writers might >not spend much time on the C-library in their mac-implementations. >Steven Edwards SAN-kit also crashes badly with this compiler, which is another >strong indication something must be wrong with the C-library. >These experiences are from years ago with my 68K-mac, but it looks these >problems have carried over to the PPC generation, zzz,zzz,zzz... > >I would recommend try and replacing malloc() with NewPtr(), which can be >done quickly. Let me hear if it works ! > >- Guido - I don't know what the problem is (haven't tried it) but there's nothing wrong with malloc(), at least not as implemented by Metroworks... The average mac hacker uses malloc() as much or more than NewPtr(), in my experience. We've cleaned a lot of shit up since the 68k days...
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