Failure INSIDE malloc() ??

[Pyung-Chul Kim]

In article <677448705 at macbeth.cs.duke.edu> lsn at duke.cs.duke.edu (Lars S. Nyland) writes:
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some stuffs deleted
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>I would bet that you still use a pointer after you have freed
>the memory it points to.  You might amend your free statements
>to be more like:
>	free(p); p = NULL;
>just to make sure that you don't use the pointers after you have
>freed them.

Or, make sure the following should not happen:

	char	str[n];
	strcpy(str,another1); /* strlen(another1) >= n */

	char	*p;
	p = malloc(m);
	strcpy(p,another2); /* strlen(another2) >= m */

Hope this helps
-- 
Pyung-Chul Kim

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