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Re: Is it possible to detect the memory status ?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Mustafa4LP <mustafa dot hussain at nechclst dot in>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:53:05 +0000
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to detect the memory status ?
- References: <21681631.post@talk.nabble.com>
Mustafa4LP wrote:
> I am wondering whether it is possible to detect that a memory is already
> freed or not in a C program.
> Like if there is some pointer which points to certain memory and I want it
> to free but the problem is that it may already be freed.
> is there any routine which can tell me that if the memory is freed or not
> and does the memory belongs to the constant string (which is global) ?
No, sorry.
> If this is not available with the current compilers, is it possible to
> implement such library functions ?
I can't think of any way of doing it without writing or modifying an
allocation library.
Andrew.