[ODE] alloc versus malloc

Nate W coding at natew.com
Wed Feb 13 12:08:01 2002


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Alon Levy wrote:

> 	My simulation got too big and crashed. [....]
> Anyone with similar experiences? If not, does anyone know what could
> make alloc act wierdly on my system and mine alone? I'm running linux
> 2.4.18pre6, and gcc 2.95.4.

I had similar results under Windows, but was able to get around the
problem by increasing the stack size.  It was my understanding that Linux
would grow the stack as much as necessary, but could that have changed
under a newer kernel?  I have yet to run ODE on my Linux box.

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
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