From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Problem with malloc/free
Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 2003 16:06:04 +0000
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Hello.

Sergio Aguayo wrote:
> The problem is the following: i'm using DJGPP (the version available
> right now), i'm using malloc with an array of pointers (20 char *) for
> loading a file (a total of 20 files at once). The problem comes when i
> call free to release that memory, there occures a SIGSEGV signal. I'm
> also using allegro.

It would help if you posted some code.

Perhaps you have overrun the array of pointers? This will cause memory
corruption, which can lead to free segfaulting (SIGSEGV).

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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