Regular malloc seems to fail too. This is now really confusing. Steve
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of > Stephen Pick > Sent: 16 February 2004 12:14 > To: Win32 GUI Hackers (E-mail) > Subject: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] safemalloc() not safe? > > > Hi, > > Firstly - what on earth is safemalloc()? It seems to be > documented in old patches to the perl 5.005 API, but not since then. > > Secondly - safemalloc() seems to fail when reserving space > for text label strings in the InsertItem function of > TreeView.xs. The samples/pmx.pl file distributed with the > Win32::GUI 665 PPM is a good example of the crash, just > comment out "use blib" at the start. It probably won't crash > on your machine (since I'm guessing this is dependent on > circumstance). > > The crash varies. Sometimes it is a null pointer assignment > (memory at "0x0000000" could not be "written"). Sometimes it > is an access violation. I don't understand why safefree is > doing this, it's only allocating 3 or 4 bytes of RAM so it's > not like that's a problem. The line is: > > pszText = (LPSTR) safemalloc(tlen); > > tlen is defined OK. > > Is there something that we should be using instead of > safemalloc() because safemalloc does not appear to be safe. > > Steve > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=ick > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Hackers mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Hackers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-hackers >
