Segmentation fault inside a call to the 'new' operator

[Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu]

Ciao!

Marilyn Davis wrote:
> 
> When this has happened to me using gcc, it was because I was writing
> outside the memory previously assigned to me by a previous call to
> new.
> 
> If this is what's happening to you, it can be very hard to track down.
> 
> Check the steps since the last call to new that worked.
> 
> Good luck.
Thanks Marilyn, but I think that my post was not clear enough.
The problem is that if I write something like this

{
	const int N = 1024;

	// ...
	double *p;

	cout << "before\n";
	p = new double[N];
	cout << "after\n";
	// ...
}

I get the first message ("before") and then the "segmentation fault"
message. The "after" message is not printed. So the crash happens
_inside_ the call to the new operator. Using a debugger confirms my
suspects.

I hope I've been a bit clearer despite of my bad english. :)

Umberto