From: dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: free crashes Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:19:09 GMT Organization: always disorganized Lines: 17 Message-ID: <394dd778.6486409@news.freeserve.net> References: <394BC51F DOT B6B956C1 AT ne DOT infi DOT net> <394BE835 DOT D7C0D958 AT connect DOT ab DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-150.algae-blennie.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk 961402749 14467 62.136.222.150 (19 Jun 2000 08:19:09 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 2000 08:19:09 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Tom Fjellstrom wrote: > > my program works fine, except when the line at the very end of my code > > comes along: > > > > free(bmp.data); > > > > then it crashes. what in the world could cause this?! > > I really wouldn't have a clue without seeing a better example, > but i could suggest replacing that line with > if(bmp.data) free(bmp.data); That would make no difference at all, because free(NULL) is defined to do nothing. S.