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19 years ago

Reboot when running program with two .c files

I wrote a very simple test program that runs just fine: int main(int argc, char *argv) { unsigned char *p = (unsigned char *) malloc(2048*sizeof(unsigned char)); printf("Allocation via ma...
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19 years ago

hi,

--first thing :u try to allocate 2048 of unsigned char which is equal to 2 Mb, I think it's to much ! regardless your RAM size ?

--seconde thing : to know that malloc() succeded u must do a test like : 

if (p =! NULL) then ...

so I advice u to reduce the allocation size (something like 512 bytes). http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif

best regards.