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I believe the problem is that you've corrupted some of mallocs internal
info, by using wild pointers.  Its a good idea to check all pointers.

Cheers,

leroy.

Peter Danielsson wrote:

> Why in h-ll does my program crash? It crashes on free() and it is not
> even in my functions (I just malloc and does not free at all). Sometimes
> it is a traceback from open() and sometimes play_fli() (in allegro). In
> play_fli() it can crash on open() but also on free(temp_bitmap). Is
> there a way to remove the free() commands in open()? My program is
> really large if that has anything to do with the crashes.
>
> /Peter