I would look outside C for the answer. Your account on HPUX may have very stentorian resource limits. What does
show on both boxes? Plus
if there is nothing wrong other than memory -- my assumption since it works in Linux.
I think you are bumping heads with a memory limit on HPUX. If it is a soft limit try calling setrlimit() to raise it in your code.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 06-12-2013 at 01:31 PM..
Hello
This is a simple program i carried out in my machine
i dont know how it is working
#include<alloc.h>
#include<stdio.h>
mian()
{
int *p,j;
p= (int*)malloc(1);
for(j=1;j<=580;j++)
{
*p=j;
++p;
}
p=p-580;
for(j=1;j<=580;j++)
{
printf("%d",*p);
} (7 Replies)
Hi All,
In my application malloc is returning NULL even though there is sufficient amount of free memory is available but swap memory is low.
Is this possible that, if free memory is high & swap memory is low, malloc will not be able to allocate memory & return NULL ?:)
Kindly look into... (5 Replies)
Hi All,:)
In my application malloc is returning NULL even though there is sufficient amount of free memory available but the swap memory is low.
Is this possible that, if free memory is high & swap memory is low, malloc will not be able to allocate memory & return NULL ?
Few details:
... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I am very new to BASH shell programming. I need to return an integer from a function to the caller function. I did this:
but it keeps giving me wrong return:
Can someone help me out here, please?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am having an issue using getservbyport. Here is a little program to demonstrate the problem (removed the includes):
int
main(void) {
struct servent *service;
int memsize = sizeof(struct servent);
service = (struct servent *)malloc(memsize);
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
The following shell script returning null results could you please tell me whats the problem in script,
*********************************
#!/bin/ksh
. $HOME/conf/systemProperties/EnvSetup.properties
a=`date +"%y%m%d"`
set -x
for i in `cat... (2 Replies)
Hi All
In my script, I can call on several functions. I have a logging function that is called by any of these functions. What I would like is some way of identifying which function I am using and pass this to the log function as some parameter.
Is there some built in command or way of... (3 Replies)
In a 'C' program,when I am trying to allocate memory with the help of malloc () function, it is allocating the memory up to a certain limit for e.g. in my case, it is 670 MB (approx). malloc() returns NULL if I allocate more than this amount of memory.When I tried
to allocate memory in chunks of... (1 Reply)
OS : Solaris 10
When I try to get the "echo" service port, getservbyname is returning null.
I checked - /etc/services having an entry for echo -
echo 7/tcp (But still getservbyname returning null)
Any other config required to consider? (1 Reply)
I am calling getpwnam_r with all proper argument as below:-
rv = getpwnam_r(name, result, buffer, buflen);
This program runs fine on sol 8/9/10.
But on sol 11 it returns NULL with errno set to 25
(#define ENOTTY 25 /* Inappropriate ioctl for device */)
All boxes are... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ranajit
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
calloc
MALLOC(3) Library Functions Manual MALLOC(3)NAME
malloc, free, realloc, calloc, alloca - memory allocator
SYNOPSIS
char *malloc(size)
unsigned size;
free(ptr)
char *ptr;
char *realloc(ptr, size)
char *ptr;
unsigned size;
char *calloc(nelem, elsize)
unsigned nelem, elsize;
char *alloca(size)
int size;
DESCRIPTION
Malloc and free provide a general-purpose memory allocation package. Malloc returns a pointer to a block of at least size bytes beginning
on a word boundary.
The argument to free is a pointer to a block previously allocated by malloc; this space is made available for further allocation, but its
contents are left undisturbed.
Needless to say, grave disorder will result if the space assigned by malloc is overrun or if some random number is handed to free.
Malloc maintains multiple lists of free blocks according to size, allocating space from the appropriate list. It calls sbrk (see brk(2))
to get more memory from the system when there is no suitable space already free.
Realloc changes the size of the block pointed to by ptr to size bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) block. The contents
will be unchanged up to the lesser of the new and old sizes.
In order to be compatible with older versions, realloc also works if ptr points to a block freed since the last call of malloc, realloc or
calloc; sequences of free, malloc and realloc were previously used to attempt storage compaction. This procedure is no longer recommended.
Calloc allocates space for an array of nelem elements of size elsize. The space is initialized to zeros.
Alloca allocates size bytes of space in the stack frame of the caller. This temporary space is automatically freed on return.
Each of the allocation routines returns a pointer to space suitably aligned (after possible pointer coercion) for storage of any type of
object. If the space is of pagesize or larger, the memory returned will be page-aligned.
SEE ALSO brk(2), pagesize(2)DIAGNOSTICS
Malloc, realloc and calloc return a null pointer (0) if there is no available memory or if the arena has been detectably corrupted by stor-
ing outside the bounds of a block. Malloc may be recompiled to check the arena very stringently on every transaction; those sites with a
source code license may check the source code to see how this can be done.
BUGS
When realloc returns 0, the block pointed to by ptr may be destroyed.
The current implementation of malloc does not always fail gracefully when system memory limits are approached. It may fail to allocate
memory when larger free blocks could be broken up, or when limits are exceeded because the size is rounded up. It is optimized for sizes
that are powers of two.
Alloca is machine dependent; its use is discouraged.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 14, 1986 MALLOC(3)