Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:41:32 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject: Re: DLX+Allegro+PDMLWP = "dangerous" mixture???
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bernhard Stiftner wrote:

> The interesting thing is that "free" does not necessarily
> crash - I can call it hundreds of times in a test loop
> without having problems, but some functions which
> call "free" fail SOMETIMES (like LIBINI's "ini_free") and
> some even ALWAYS (like Allegro's "draw_trans_sprite").

This is usually a sign of memory corruption by overrunning the end of 
malloc'ed buffers.  See section 9.2 of the FAQ for more details.