[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <cp9em6-804.ln1 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, Jim Duff <spam.this at 127.0.0.1> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <a42em6-202.ln1 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, Jim Duff <spam.this at 127.0.0.1> writes:
>>>> Jose Cuevas wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 24, 1:45 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>>> In article <aecec9c9-3fe0-4b76-b37a-c5cd9ebf5... at a13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Jose Cuevas <jcue... at mac.com> writes:
>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> Don't post a snippet of the code which you are questioning -- hint,
>>>>>> hint.  
>>>> Perhaps you should be a little more explicit, Brian.  Perhaps asking for
>>>> a snippet of code that *actually demonstrates the problem* (unlike the
>>>> code that's posted below) would be a good idea ;-)
>>> Well, I suppose I need to be little less terse at times. ;)
>>>
>>> He's been asked to supply the stack dump too.  Maybe that request was
>>> too terse as well.
>>>
>>> How's life back down-under?
>>>
>> All good.  Seems people are wanting to port from Alpha to IA64 at the
>> moment.  It reminds me of the early 1990s :-)
> 
> Harsh and painful memories indeed.
> 

Most of the VAX to Alpha conversion was pretty easy.  I'm sure that 
there were a few people who had problems but for most of us, it was 
recompile, link, and go.  Sometimes it was compile, fix the errors, 
recompile, . . . .

I took the opportunity to do a little cleaning up.  Some of that old 
code had variables that were never used for anything!  There were return 
codes never checked for success or failure. . . .  The sins of thirty 
years exposed to the pitiless light of day!