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Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?



Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net> writes:

> How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL 
> pointer. How can it Seg fault?

You have most likely overwritten the end of an array and overwritten
malloc's accounting info, causing a segfault next time you malloc
something.

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