Re: Error freeing memory....

Nick Keighley wrote:

On 15 Mar, 02:33, pete <pfil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eric Sosman wrote:
On 3/14/2010 1:57 PM, Sheldon wrote:

I have a fairly large program that has a problem that I cannot seem to
solve.
The program runs smoothly but when it tries to free allocated memory
before exiting I get a segmentation fault.
I have checked many times the following:

1. That I have not freed the memory before hand and call free this
way: if(array) free(array);

A note in passing: This makes no difference, because
free(NULL) is legal (and does nothing).

And it also makes no difference because

if(freed_pointer) free(freed_pointer);

is still undefined.

why?

I intended for (freed_pointer) to represent a previously freed pointer.

--
pete
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