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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Wol's lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>,
	mdraid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] C programming problem
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 17:43:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab1b1454-8226-ceab-55c8-e105fd0b3ca6@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a2e28ad-20bd-d369-d65f-19d79f1871fb@youngman.org.uk>

Hi Wol,

Bug alert!

On 02/07/2018 02:46 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
> void main()
> {

>     blocks = logdisks * mirrors * disks;
>     array = (int *) malloc( sizeof(int) * blocks );
>     memset( &array, 0, blocks * sizeof(int) );
              ^^^^^^

Your 'array' variable is already a pointer.  You should not have
another address-of operator in front of it.  You are overwriting
your pointer and a bunch of static memory right after it, not
zeroing the area pointed to by 'array'.

Phil

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-07 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-07 19:46 [OT] C programming problem Wol's lists
2018-02-07 20:00 ` Linus Lüssing
2018-02-07 20:00 ` Michael Fritscher
2018-02-07 20:22   ` Wol's lists
2018-02-07 22:43 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2018-02-07 23:32   ` Wol's lists

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