From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] malloc problems
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:00:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005479@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005473@msgid-missing>
"Donny Cooper" <dcooper@hstc.necsyl.com> writes:
|> dynamic_area = (unsigned char *) malloc ( membytes );
|> printf(" dyn_area = %x %lx, mem= %x \n",dynamic_area,dynamic_area,membytes);
You are passing a pointer where an unsigned int and an unsigned long,
resp., is expected. That results in undefined behaviour.
Andreas.
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2001-04-26 14:36 [Linux-ia64] malloc problems Donny Cooper
2001-04-26 17:00 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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