Re: Segmentation fault from free()

Do you mean that something 'free' needs has been destroyed?
Why this wouldn't happen with small files?

THe memory debugger idea is definitely a good one, I'll try that.

Thanks a lot!
Lei

Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:34:24PM -0400, Lei Yang wrote:
> 
>>Could anyone please point me out what could possibly be the reason?
> 
> 
> Cannot say something definitely with incomplete source code.
> 
> The bug is not necessarily in the malloc/free pair of this construct.  Likely
> you destroyed the heap structure in earlier memory allocation/deallocation
> operations (e.g. during list processing).  You may want to check your program
> with a memory debugger, e.g. valgrind for i386 platform.
> 
> Robert
>