[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

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In article <4sudnQFAnYm5FgnXnZ2dnUVZ_o6dnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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!

That's not the part that was so harsh and painful.
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