segfaults in mm_malloc

From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 10:27:31 CDT

Hi Tim,
I saw your posting on the namd wiki and want you to know that I to have
seen this problem or one very similar in mm_mallac. David Kunzman
(charm++ developer) worked on it for a couple of days last week.

I do not know what the final results were, other than the compiler makes
some default assumptions about casting a void * to a char *. It instead
casts it to an int and wipes out half of the memory address. So what is
actually returned is entirely bogus.

What compiler are you using?

Brian

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