Crash by allocationg small blocks

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From: Sebastien LEGUET (LEGUET_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:05:08 -0800

Hello,

I try to exeute this code and I have a crash during the execution. The
realloc function return NULL.
#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

int main()
{
                char** pData = NULL;
        char *pszFicDescName = NULL;

        for( int i=0; i< 7000000; i++ )
        {
                        pszFicDescName = (char*)malloc(1041);
                        strcpy(pszFicDescName,"Ceci est un test");
                        if (pData == NULL)
                                pData = (char**)malloc( sizeof(char*) );
            pData = (char**)realloc( (void*)pData, (i+1)*sizeof(char*) );
//access violation in small-block allocator
                        pData[i] = pszFicDescName;
                        printf("Cpt = %d\n",i);
        }

        return(0);
} //end main

Could you tell me if you know about that problem and how can I resolved that
because I need to use standard C code.
I tried this code on VC6 and VC7 and I have the same result. I know that
there is a resolution by declaring _set_sbh_threshold(0); but it doesn't work
and I have the SP5 of VC6 so the realloc function has been corrected.

In fact if I comment the line
                        pData[i] = pszFicDescName;
the program is correctly executed to the end.

Thanks

Sebastien