Segmentation fault when free [SOLVED]

[Unga]

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> > ktrace.out shows:
> > malloc_init()
> > 0x8103400 = malloc(1024)
> > malloc_init()
> > malloc_init()
> > 0x810b0b0 = malloc(400)
> > :
> > so many malloc
> > :
> > so many free
> > :
> > malloc/free combinations
> > :
> > free(0xbfbfc9c9)
> >
> > 1. This clearly shows my program is trying to free a
> memory that has
> > not been allocated. How it could have happened?
> 
> Aha.  This looks remarkably like an address in the runtime
> stack.  It
> usually happens when you have a function that returns the
> address of a
> 'local' variable, instead of a newly allocated heap
> area, i.e.:
> 
>     char *
>     function(void)
>     {
>         char buffer[100];
> 
>         return buf;
>     }
> 

This was indeed the case, worst yet, I was trying to free a part of the buffer (as per your example above) by mistake which was not allocated by malloc.

Thank you all who helped me. 

Best regards
Unga