On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:04:03 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> : free(0xbfbfc9c9) >>> >>> 1. This clearly shows my program is trying to free a memory that >>> has not been allocated. How it could have happened? >> >> Aha. This looks remarkably like an address in the runtime stack. It >> usually happens when you have a function that returns the address of >> a 'local' variable, instead of a newly allocated heap area, i.e.: >> >> char * >> function(void) >> { >> char buffer[100]; >> >> return buf; >> } > > This was indeed the case, worst yet, I was trying to free a part of > the buffer (as per your example above) by mistake which was not > allocated by malloc. > > Thank you all who helped me.
Great! You are welcome, of course :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"