Re: writing to freed memory--issues

Kasper Dupont
<22187600027978126515@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

If your program printed the actual address it might be a lot
easier to figure out why it behaves the way it does. Something
like fprintf(stderr,"%08x\n",a); (assuming a 32 bit architecture,
on a 64 bit architecture you'd want 16 digits of the pointer).

Or use %p.

--
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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