Re: Strange behaviour with free()

[Mike Castle]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:40:55PM +0530, Vikaas BV wrote:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
>  
> main() {
>     char * x;
>     char * y;
>     char * z;
>  
>     x = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char) * 100);

At this point, we can already tell your program is broken.  You should
not have to cast malloc() to char* here.  It seems to indicate a lack
of understanding of the fundamentals of the C programming language (in this
particular case, that you need to include <stdlib.h>).

I suggest getting a good book on C programming and read the C Programming
FAQ at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html.

If you are having problems getting to this point correctly, the rest of
your code is probably suspect.

mrc
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