[PD] stumped on mayer_realfft, getbytes and freebytes

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sat Aug 19 21:56:10 CEST 2006


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Charles Henry wrote:

> (I traced out the problematic statement by adding printf's in between 
> statements)  Once the program hits freebytes, it spits out "glibc 
> detected: double free or corruption". any ideas?
> Chuck

Try two wonderful programs Valgrind and Valkyrie, which will find the 
problem at the moment it occurs, instead of after-the-fact like glibc's 
malloc/free do. This is because Valgrind runs all of the code in an 
emulator (to say things simply...) in order to check all memory accesses.

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