From:	deisenzi AT d DOT umn DOT edu
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	page fault and prob. w/ free()
Date:	2 Feb 2000 16:13:38 GMT
Organization:	University of Minnesota-Duluth
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I am causing a  run-time error in the form of a page fault.  I thought
a page fault was a miss on the cache so I am not sure how I'm causing
it but the offending line of code is...
free(data_buffer);

where data_buffer has been declared as follows...
unsigned char *data_buffer;

and allocated memory using malloc() before free is called.

any suggestions of why free() wouldn't be working?

thanks,
Darren

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