freeing of char**

From: gregg (greggory_at_netJUSTSAYNOcourrier.com)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:24:19 +0100

Hello all,

I have a char **, which points to a number of strings (char*).
When comes the moment to free it, i have to free all the (char*) inside.
Yet when i do this:

int i;

for ( i=0; *(myChar+i) != NULL; i++ )
        free (*(myChar+i)); /* to free the (char*) inside
free(myChar);

well, on execution the system says 'junk pointer, too low to make sense'
(and the pointers aren't freed)

of course, when i write (*(myChar+i) = NULL), it's all okay
(except the memory hasn't been freed ?!)

so how should i free the (char**) to make it work, and also be clean ?

thx
gregg

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