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receiving the following error in the program-
corrupted size vs. prev_size
Aborted
it runs fine with small texts such as cat.txt but not with bigger ones such as lalaland.txt
could anyone kindly inform me when/why does this error occur?
tried valgrind too but am unable to understand the problem.
link for code which contains the troublesome function - https://gist.github.com/ayushm2003/dcf761a81ddc955fd09f2385d3ccf428
This char *str = malloc(strlen(word)); is a problem, remember a 3-letter word requires 4 bytes of memory (terminating null byte).
This free(temp); is a huge problem (both of them). It has just obliterated a node in the linked list. That could (likely) be some other node's next. Not to mention, the word may appear in the text again. Program shouldn't free nodes til it's done using them. Which would be when unload is called.
realloc?[(stackoverflow.com/questions/48177778/…). No one with be able to help you because there is no code to review, no valgrind report to review. run valgrind withvalgrind -vto maximize the feedback. It should be giving you line numbers from dictionary.c, at least a place to start.