Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:14:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jean-Paul Beconne <beconne@nmrc.ucc.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with malloc() and free() Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512111331.2985e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <355848E3.CC8FFC39@nmrc.ucc.ie>
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On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jean-Paul Beconne wrote:
> I wrote some code using malloc(), realloc() and free(). When I compiled
> it I got an application which has the following problems :
>
> 1- when free(pointeur) is reach, the application exited and sent the
> following error : /usr/libexec/ld.so "AMIC" undefined symbol
Please quote the entire error message.
> 2- the function printf has a strange behavior :
> the code :
> printf("something");
> printf("variable %s\n", string);
> where string is a pointeur (char) manipulated with malloc() and
> realloc() is
> working.
> And the code :
> /* printf("something"); */
> printf("variable %s\n", string);
> sends the error "Segmentation fault".
Are you initializing string to NULLs? printf is probably running off the
end of the variable because it isn't initialized.
I'd have to see the entire code.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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