Re: free(): invalid pointer:

On 30 Sep, 21:03, Cyron <mdigit...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello friends,

I'm getting a bizaare glibc error referencing free -- I malloc a
chunk of memory and then later when I try to free it is when the
program aborts. I've added some debug code to the source and find
that my pointer i get from malloc matches the one that I'm calling
free with -- and there is no possibility that have i have previously
freed the memory because there is only 1 free call in the entire
source (surrounded by debug printfs) so I don't know what is going on.
Any insight?

Are you perhaps writing to memory just outside the memory you have
allocated?

.

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