Questions tagged [realloc]
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How is my (custom) program leaking memory? I am preparing myself for pset5
I'm trying to understand how memory allocation and pointers work, since i find pset5 overwhelming.
I made a simple program that reads characters from an array, and let them be written into both a new ...
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realloc and length in load(), server.c
I need help with load() in server.c. This is a follow-up to the other question, except now I'll post the updated code and make it a bit more specific.
When I tested the server after implemented ...
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pset6 parse function: Invalid read of size 1
I'm having trouble with allocating memory correctly.
p is a pointer that I intended to point to method, target, then http switching to the next one after each space is found.
Then I thought I'd be ...
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pset6 - load(), realloc() and 'invalid next size' error
I am stucked at the load() function. This line :
newBufferSize = bufferSize * (*length);
gives me the following error:
realloc(): invalid next size: 0x0000000000607be
Then the process was aborted.
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What will realloc() do if the contiguous memory location is already occupied?
Consider-
char* name1 = malloc(4 * sizeof(char));
name1 = "Mike";
Now if i want to put "Mike Smith" in the same string "name1", I need 6 more bytes of memory (one for the space and 5 for "Smith". ...
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In pset6 server.c, does using realloc() reset the file pointer for fread()?
The following was my load() function for pset6 server.c
bool load(FILE* file, BYTE** content, size_t* length)
{
size_t count = 0;
BYTE* file_char = malloc(sizeof(BYTE));
while (...
