[ODE] Segfaulting ODE with too many objects -- ALLOC vs MALLOC

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

Kyle Hubert wrote:

> when they do apparently-legal things and get segfaults. Should I make
> sure that all such bug reports should be directed to you? :)

It's open source. If it bugs you enough, you fix it. I'm just helping 
out with the Voice of Experience here :-)

> switch to malloc/free. Also, as you point out, malloc/free is slower,
> so why would I want this?

If you don't want to write code yourself, you can attempt to use the 
code that's already there.

> Unfortunately,  I'm not developing a Windows application. I'm stuck
> working on a Linux application in Windows until I can convince work to
> get me a real Linux box. Which, then I'll get to pound my head against
> all the dll->so changes.

That's a bummer. When I'm in that situation, I dual-boot, with a virtual 
linux partition as a giant file on the Windows partition. But it's been 
a while -- we have a wall of rack-mount Linux boxes here to use when needed.

Cheers,

			/ h+