Re: Unable to free malloc'd ptr
Jason Pawloski <jpawloski@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1182377203.259749.209000@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
First of all, I need to apolgoize; I am not a programmer and its been
years since I last programmed something so this is probably a very
simple question. For work, I have to write a simulation.
I am using MS VC++ in XP
Relevant:
I have a local integer pointer:
int *nr1 = NULL;
within this function, I call another function
int *function2([parameters])
This function mallocs an int *ptr and returns it. So I use the
function like:
nr1 = function2([parameter]);
Now when I try to free it later in my first function (the one that
calls function2), I get an MSVC++ error. The exact wording is:
You've messed up somewhere. Probably written off the end of the block
of memory that you've allocated. It's on line 42 of your program.
(Translation: You haven't shown enough code. Reduce your program to a
minimal, compilable example that shows the problem, and post that.)
As an example, try:
{
int * function2()
{
int * retVal = malloc(4);
// You may have messed up somethere here, we don't know
return retVal;
}
int * nr1 = NULL
nr1 = function2();
// You may have messed up something here, we don't know
free nr1;
}
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