[H-GEN] malloc() causing a segfault

[Raymond Smith]

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Andrae Muys wrote:
> Regardless you've corrupted libc's heap management and so
> it's segfaulting at that point.  Good luck, these bugs can be really
> vicious.

Indeed. What does the code in the middle do? Be careful of system/library
calls that take ownership of a pointer and free/resize its memory (look
especially for function calls of the form 'screw_you(char** hippy)').

Cheers,

Raymond

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