Re: [Arsperl-users] ars_CreateEntry crashing on Windows

[Jeff M. <jcm...@je...>]

John Unsworth wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone explain what happens now? Do we get notified of an official fix?
> 

I added this patch to the CVS tree. Since the discussion centered around
the bug affecting Windows, I modified the suggested fix to be:


> /* malloc that will never return null */
> void           *
> mallocnn(int s)
> {
> 
> #if defined(malloc) && defined(_WIN32)
> #undef malloc
> #endif
> 
> 	void           *m = malloc(s ? s : 1);
> 
> 	if (!m)
> 		croak("can't malloc");
> 
> 	memset(m, 0, s ? s : 1);
> 
> 	return m;
> }
>