I don't understand this code question, so I'll try to unwind it.
'malloc' allocates memory of size_t size, and returns a pointer to the
allocated memory .. or NULL if it could not allocate the memory.
I didn't look at the shell/init.c code for what kind of variable
'cmdline' is, but I assume it's a pointer? If 'cmdlen' is the number
of characters you want to allocate (let's say cmdlen=40) then you
should use:
cmdline = malloc( sizeof(char) * (cmdlen+1) );
Having called 'malloc' to get the memory, you should test it like this:
if (cmdline == NULL) {
/* out of memory */
error_out_of_memory();
return E_NoMem;
}
After that test, you can assume cmdline has a valid pointer to enough
memory to store the 40 characters.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Not evolving fast...
> but I change FeeCOM shell/init.c to show cmdlen...
> if((cmdline = malloc(cmdlen + 1)) == 0) {
> printf("cmdlen=%d",cmdlen);
> error_out_of_memory(); /* Cannot recover from this problem */
> return E_NoMem;
> }
>
> And it now writes cmdlen=40 before the Out of memory error....
> suggesting there is no 40 bytes left for ... I believe this is the
> parameters pass to command.com.
>
> So... where malloc get it's memory from? If it would be from EMS memory
> it could explain why JemmEX NoEMS could cause the problem...
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