Re: Run-Time Check Failure #2 - Stack around the variable 'foobar' was corrupted.

From:
Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:25:08 -0800
Message-ID:
<710ki4hp708abfpvh7hu3g3ti1qhv9rh93@4ax.com>
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:59:24 +0000, "(2b|!2b)==?"
<void-star@ursa-major.com> wrote:

(2b|!2b)==? wrote:

I am receiveing the warning message in the subject of this post,
displayed in a message box when I build and run teh sample code below. I
am using VS2005, and am running on W2k.

I repeat the 'error/warning' message below:

Run-Time Check Failure #2 - Stack around the variable 'foobar' was
corrupted.

I would be grateful if anyone can help point out what I may be doing
wrong, since I have spent the entire evening trying to fgure it out - to
no avail....

Code snippet follows below:

typedef struct
{
    double *data;
    long size;
    long datasize;
    long ipos;
} MyArray;

typedef struct
{
    MyArray f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7;
}MyStruct ;

static long MyAlloc(MyStruct *s1, long size)
{
    long i1, i2;
    double *data[7];

    if (!s1) return -1 ;
    
    for (i1 = 0; i1 < 7; i1++)
    {
        if ((data[i1] = (double *)calloc(size, sizeof(double))) == NULL)


Your failure to #include stdlib.h causes this statement to invoke
undefined behavior. Putting the cast in was not the correct way to
fix the error.

        {
            for (i2 = i1 - 1; i2 >= 0; i2--)
                free(data[i2]);
            memset(s1, 0, sizeof(MyStruct));


Are you absolutely certain that all bits zero is the correct
representation for NULL?

            return (-2);
        }
    }

    s1->f2 = s1->f3 = s1->f4 = s1->f5 = s1->f6 = s1->f7 = s1->f1;
    s1->f1.data = data[0];
    s1->f2.data = data[1];
    s1->f3.data = data[2];
    s1->f4.data = data[3];
    s1->f5.data = data[4];
    s1->f6.data = data[5];
    s1->f7.data = data[6];

    return (0);
}

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
    Test();


There is no prototype in scope for Test. The compiler will expect it
to return an int which it doesn't.

main is supposed to return an int. The absence of a return statement
caused my test case to return 0x12FEBC. Could this be part of your
problem?

}

void Test()
{
    MyStruct foobar = {0};
    MyAlloc(&foobar, 100);


You should check the value returned by MyAlloc before attempting to
call MyFree.

    MyFree(&foobar);
}

I would really like to understand what is causing this problem ...


The implementation for MyFree is:

void MyFree(MyStruct *s1)
{
    if (!s1) return ;

    if ( (s1->f1.data) && (s1->f2.data) && (s1->f3.data) &&
        (s1->f4.data) && (s1->f5.data) && (s1->f6.data) &&
        (s1->f7.data) )
    {
        free(s1->f1.data);
        free(s1->f2.data);
        free(s1->f3.data);
        free(s1->f4.data);
        free(s1->f5.data);
        free(s1->f6.data);
        free(s1->f7.data);
        memset(s1, 0, sizeof(MyStruct));
    }
    return;
}


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