Re: memory allocation in GLIB

["Gustavo J. A. M. " Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Seg, 2003-03-10 at 14:10, Jim Parker wrote:
> G'Day !
>
> I have a problem (SEGFAULT) when freeing a vector allocated using 
> routines in GLIB (version 1.2.10).
>
> I declare my variable as:
>       gfloat *vector;
>
> I then allocate memory as:
>       vector = g_malloc ( (some_int)*sizeof(gfloat) );
>
> This allows me to access the memory using:
>       for (i=0; i<(some_int); i++)  vector[i] = some_float;
>
> then when exiting the function, I free the memory using:
>       g_free( vector );
>
> This statement causes a SEGFAULT.  Can anyone suggest what I am doing 
> wrong.

  The code seems correct.  Must be some other problem.  Try running the
program under gdb, after compiling with -g, to see why it segfaults.

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Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
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