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malloc causes crash

hi there,

I'm developing a C program for an embedded device in order to use it as a pad which is able to recognize handwriting. In short, the program is supposed to extract several features of the signature and calculate a biometric hash.

Sadly the program keeps crashing as soon as I use malloc or realloc. Since I'm not able to debug the malloc function I can't really see the cause for that.

        int32_t *foobar;

        foobar = malloc( sizeof(int32_t) );   //CRASH

I don't even know where to start looking for a solution, except for google which didn't provide the answer I was looking for, so maybe anyone here could give me a solution or a hint to fix it.

If there is some important information missing please just tell so and I will see if I can add it.

I'm working with Keil yVision:

stats for the embedded device
ARM-7 32bit Architecture
NXP (Philips) LPC 2368
72 MHz
512 kB on-chip Flash
58kB SRAM

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