Help with malloc

[Andrew Bell]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy)
<sundara.vardhan@ge.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
>        Desperate: Do not know if this is the right forum for this
> question. Using gcc 4.1.1 on Red Hat Linux, I keep getting negative
> pointer value when I try to allocate more than 128000 bytest using
> malloc(). Works fine if the value is less than 128000. Any ideas why
> this happens. I would very much appreciate your help and input.

RETURN VALUE
       For  calloc()  and  malloc(),  the  value returned is a pointer to the
       allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any kind of  variable,
       or NULL if the request fails.

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Andrew Bell
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