Re: [xml] Need help: My program trying to free

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:16:13PM -0500, Jones, Mark A (Mark) wrote:
> I'm getting a core dump after calling xmlFreeTextReader(reader).  Has anyone seen a problem like this before?  I show the piece of code that is dropping the core along with a few stack frames (gdb) from the core file.   Any insight would be much appreciated.
[..]
>         type = processNode(reader);                                                                       
>         if ( type == DETAILS || type == DETAIL )       
>             ret = xmlTextReaderNext(reader);           
>         else                                           
>             ret = xmlTextReaderRead(reader);           
>     }                                                          
>     xmlFreeTextReader(reader);                         

  Without a way to reproduce the problem, I don't see what might be going
wrong. maybe processNode() made a free error, maybe your program made a free
error, destroying the allocator data and making xmlFreeTextReader() fail.
Use valgrind or other memory debugging tool.

Daniel

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