OpenEuphoria

Re: realloc() failing under DOS (why it does'nt ...)

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Nov 07, 2001
• 466 views

pseudonomus writes:
> How does Euphoria solve the problem with
> realloc()/malloc() failing under dos?

I did find one rare case where realloc fails 
(or at least doesn't behave as advertised) with Watcom,
but it was possible to work around this case.

> We (future Eu source hackers!) must know because if
> the Euphoria source does not use standard
> implementations of malloc(), realloc(), etc., then it
> will not be portable to other plaftorms (such as
> FreeBSD, OS/2, MacOS, etc.) that easilly.

Euphoria calls the standard malloc() etc., so
it should be possible to port to other platforms.

> And, when will the source be released anyways?

The 2.3 alpha-test release, including source for 
the interpreter, should be available in about 2 weeks.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com