[PD-dev] realloc()

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Alexandre Quessy wrote:

> I am trying to use realloc() to manipulate strings. I get the following
> PD error when I try to make a string about 64 chars long.
> *** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x0830df68 ***
> Does it mean that PD only allows me to use that much memory, according
> to the size of my struct or a little more ? I hope not.

No, it means that you confused your args and so you're passing a pointer 
as the size argument! I say that because 0x0830df68 looks like a heap 
address, that is, the result of a malloc().

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