Re: invalid pointer error

[Anitha Boyapati <anithab at sankhya dot com>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Mohamed Shafi wrote:

> 
> *** glibc detected *** ./readpro.exe: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00c5ac80 ***

 This is clearly a memory associated error. You are possibly trying to 
 free some memory which is not allocated in one of the destructors as
 you reach the end of program.

 Check if you are using delete[] where delete suffices.


> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0xb8ef18]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x79)[0xb9241d]
> /lib/libc.so.6(exit+0x88)[0xb559a8]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe4)[0xb407ec]
> ./readpro.exe[0x8048471]
> ======= Memory map: ========
> 00225000-00230000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1475588
> /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1
> 00230000-00231000 rw-p 0000a000 08:02 1475588
> /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1
> 0029e000-002b7000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1475582    /lib/ld-2.4.so
> 002b7000-002b8000 r--p 00018000 08:02 1475582    /lib/ld-2.4.so
> 002b8000-002b9000 rw-p 00019000 08:02 1475582    /lib/ld-2.4.so
> 00447000-00448000 r-xp 00447000 00:00 0          [vdso]
> 00b2b000-00c57000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1475583    /lib/libc-2.4.so
> 00c57000-00c5a000 r--p 0012b000 08:02 1475583    /lib/libc-2.4.so
> 00c5a000-00c5b000 rw-p 0012e000 08:02 1475583    /lib/libc-2.4.so
> 00c5b000-00c5e000 rw-p 00c5b000 00:00 0
> 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 7688505    /home/tom/readpro.exe
> 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:07 7688505    /home/tom/readpro.exe
> 0921a000-0923b000 rw-p 0921a000 00:00 0          [heap]
> b7f13000-b7f14000 rw-p b7f13000 00:00 0
> b7f2f000-b7f31000 rw-p b7f2f000 00:00 0
> bfe1b000-bfe31000 rw-p bfe1b000 00:00 0          [stack]
> Aborted
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Shafi
> 

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Anitha B
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