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Re: [Fwd: Possible bug in the memory chunk management.]


From: Andreas Jaeger
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Possible bug in the memory chunk management.]
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:05:29 +0100
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Wolfram Gloger <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>> You are right, we did made a mistake but nevertheless you missed
>> the point, Hence even if we will make buf_h = calloc(1, 7);
>> the problem is with the second loop who overwrite the buffer.
>
> No way, note that buf_h is a pointer to _pointers_ (or array of
> _pointers_), hence you need to make at least
>
> char **buf_h;
> buf_h = calloc(7, sizeof(char*));
>
> or
>
> buf_h = calloc(1, 7*sizeof(char*))
>
> if you want to later access buf_h[6].
>
>> Please take a second look at the source (change buf_h = calloc(1, 6) to
>> buf_h = calloc(1, 7); ) and still the output will be buf_h[4] = 1
>> This been tested on slackware linux 8.0.
>
> I haven't checked your source further.

The same is needed for buf_e but the rest looked fine.

Andreas
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