From: derek@watson.ibm.com (Derek Lieber) Subject: Re: Help: bug in ld(?) and where I can find its source code Date: 4 Feb 1992 14:06:18 GMT
In article <1992Feb3.225424.20176@athena.mit.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to compile GNU's binary utilities 1.9. Everything works
>fine, except ld, which reports "virtual memory exhausted". The one I
You've been bitten by linux's malloc(0) == NULL "feature".
You'll have to change the xmalloc() function to do a check for
a 0 byte request.
-- Derek Lieber derek@watson.ibm.com