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> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
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> > How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL
> > pointer. How can it Seg fault?
>
> The internal state of the stack became corrupted. Try compiling with
> "-lefence" (electric fence). Then reproduce the error. It will crash
> again, but with a bit of luck at the place where the actual error is.
>
> Walter
>
Thank you.
With efence pin pointing the point of failure I have managed to learn that
realloc(void*, size_t) frees the other size allocated memory.
For some reason I was convinced that it does not.
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Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
