Re: malloc refuses to allocate more than 3k
Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:48:44 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, tk wrote:
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>
> tmpBuffer = (char *) malloc((size_t)(fileStat.st_size + 1L));
> if (tmpBuffer == NULL)
{
fprintf(stderr, "FileStat.st_size was %lu\n", fileStat.st_size);
fatalError ("Couldn't get memory");
}
> fatalError("testing..4.");
>
Try this (with casts to make sure the right stuff is going to malloc).
You might find that a certain file-size is 0 when accessed. Note that
if this is an active file, the file size may not be correct until it
is closed. For performance reasons, you don't want to close then reopen
active files, so you might be attempting to use fstat() to keep track
of something your code should be keeping track of locally.
Cheers,
DJ
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