In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Madhavi S
uram writes:
>
>Hi
>
>I am running a C program in user space on FreeBSD 3.3 release. I got a
>warning like this:
>
> testing in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
>
>testing is the name of the executable I am running.
>
>Could anyone tell me what this warning means? What may be the effect of
>this code when I shift it to kernel with due modifications?
It means that you do something like this:
...
p = malloc(n); /* N <=2048 */
p += m;
free(p);
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