memory allocation in gedit without use of malloc

You would be better posting this on a programming forum too.

Does your code have:

#include <sys/malloc.h>

http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7625451

     I'm more of a beginner in C, but I guess any of us would have to see what you used a little more... for now, let me ask if you included stdlib.h? The book I use shows a simple example of memory allocation with the following:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define A_MEGABYTE (1024 * 1024)

int main()
{
     char *some_memory;
     int megabye = A_MEGABYTE;
     int exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;

     some_memory = (char *)malloc(megabyte);
     if (some_memory != NULL){
          sprintf(some_memory, "HELLO WORLD\n";
          printf("%s", some_memory);
          exit_code = EXIT_SUCCESS);
     }
     exit(exit_code);
}

     This is taken from "Beginning Linux Programming, 4th Edition", by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones. Realize you may not want to show your program, but are you following the format ok?