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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:11:01 +0100
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Subject:	Re: Using the free(*ptr) routine and getting an exception, "Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION"
From:	Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:11 AM, YZFury  wrote:
> Whoops.   I was making the pointer point to x instead of putting x's value in the memory that was just allocated.   Now i understand that. Really sorry for a stupid syntax error question on my part. thanks for the quick reply though :).  Like I said basically new to C.
>

Nitpick: it wasn't a syntax error but a logic error. Your program was
syntactically correct. Compilers are not allowed to generate object
code from C++ which contains a syntax error.

Note that your question had nothing to do with Cygwin. You happened to
use Cygwin, but the behavior would have been the same with any C
compiler and operating system. It would be better to ask in a general
C programming forum, e.g. stackoverflow.

Csaba
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