malloc()

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:59:51 -0500 (EST)

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I use libc-5.4.17. I had trouble compiling the newer libc and gave up.
I notice that if malloc() is given the value of "INT_MAX", defined in
limits.h, it will crash with a core-dump, never returning to the
caller. It should return NULL for something it can't do.

If someone has a newer libc that works, please verify that this bug
no longer exists. Thanks.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.60 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.

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