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  3. January 2003

Memory Allocation Question

 >> If the value of the pointer at deallocate time is still the same as what
was returned from the initial allocate, what else about it can be corrupted?

1) Have you moved (or in any way "touched" the pointer in such a way as it
could have been invalidated?  The content would appear the same but the tag
bit would have been turned off rendering it useless as a pointer.

2) Did you do a realloc and fail to store the new pointer (i.e are you
attempting to free using the original pointer when the realloc may have
changed it?

Jon Paris
Partner400

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