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From: "James Colannino" <james@colannino.org>
To: Linux C Programming List <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: glibc detected - free(): invalid next size
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:59:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F6A9AF.8010309@colannino.org> (raw)

Hey everyone.  I have a quick question.  What does the following runtime 
error mean?

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804a1c0 ***

Does this mean that the program attempted to free memory from a pointer 
that wasn't allocated any memory?   I have a feeling that is what this 
means, but the message itself is cryptic.

On a related note, does anyone know of a good source that describes 
runtime errors such as this in detail?  It would help me greatly in my 
debugging experience.  Thanks :)

James

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-18  4:59 UTC|newest]

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2006-02-18  4:59 James Colannino [this message]
2006-02-18 10:14 ` glibc detected - free(): invalid next size Glynn Clements

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