Malloc bug?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, William Blew wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>
> Anybody know here man page patches are submitted? After all, if the
> man page is incorrect, an easy fix is to update it :).
>
> BTW: David, thanks for the info.

No prob.  And Hollis made another good point about running past the bounds
of a memory region.  Same applies for any data structure (arrays, etc.).
Another common problem is to compile against a set of headers for a
library where the library itself doesn't match.  This can cause the size
of objects to change, and you run over the bounds without even knowing it.


David

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