Re: realloc() / free() BYTE* immediately after malloc() fails
On Jun 6, 7:37 pm, attibln <Atti...@gmx.net> wrote:
On 6 Jun., 19:24, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
Debug Assertion Failed!
Program: ...
File: fread.c
Line: 93
Expression: (buffer != NULL)
that line (93) is
_VALIDATE_RETURN((buffer != NULL), EINVAL, 0);
That's a good one! I didn't even see any 'fread' in your code.
fread.c is probably included by stdafx.h or <iostream> or VisualStudio
automatically.
Anyway, I wanted the buffer to be freed - which only didn't work
because of my typo.
(Fyi: When the free() didn't work because of the typo I tried to
deallocate the space by making it 0 bytes big.)
In practice, there are only two reasons why free will fail:
-- the pointer you pass to it was not allocated by malloc, or
has been freed since, or
-- you've corrupted the free space arena.
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