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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: help please! =)
Date: 15 Mar 2002 14:09:43 GMT
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james watmuff <ammojamo AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

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> (in my program, main() ) it does not seem to be returning the value... 
> to be even more bizarre, when i comment out the 'free(weight_of_x)' line,
> the function returns 11.0, but otherwise it returns 0.0

That's a rather sure sign of your program doing something badly wrong
regarding memory allocation earlier on, or it simply wrote past the
end of some array.  What you're observing is what the C gurus call
"undefined behaviour", caused by some bug in your code.

The actual problem quite probably is in some other part of the
program, which you didn't show here.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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