/*
* posted to the net by someone who asked "Why is this causing malloc to
* dump core! Modified slightly to free the pointers, which causes my
* debugging malloc to find the bug. Turning on malloc_debug(2) also
* spots the problem.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
int
main()
{
char *p[3], wd[128];
int len, i;
char *malloc();
int strlen();
strcpy(wd,"test");
for (i=0; i<3; i++) {
len = strlen(wd);
if ((p[i] = malloc(len)) == NULL) {
printf("ERROR: malloc failed\n");
exit(-1);
}
else
strcpy(p[i],wd);
}
for(i=0; i < 3; i++)
free(p[i]);
return 0;
}
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