Re: [MiNT] Mint Bug?

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 07:22 +0200, Janez Valant wrote:
> > > So I ran a test.  It allocates 1 megabyte every 1 second, tells you if
> > > the pointer is null or not, and then runs "free".
> >
> > Could u post the source code?
> > I just wrote a little GFA program that does the same (I think) but I
> > dont get this behaviour that you describe (Milan 060).
> >
> > To me it sounds really weird that MALLOC fails?!
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   I recently also experienced odd MALLOC() behaviour. MALLOC in TOS (14Mb Ram) 
> allocated all free ram, instead few hundred kilobytes... Don't know if its 
> GFA or OS related problem...

I found programs compiled on ARAnyM and on Keith's machine don't exhibit
this behavior on my falcon.  However, i installed a new mintlib from
sparemint and it didn't fix it.  So the issue seems quite localized to
my falcon (which is good), but I don't know what it is (which is bad).

Thanks,
Mark