I installed valgrind and run the test, you are right about the errors. I change the calloc calls and it worked fine, that sounds strange to me , because the man page says that way of calling is supported. Thanks Emanuele
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Emanuele Placidi < emanuele.plac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, calloc accepts "nmemb" with 0 and it is used to alloc a single chunk > of memory sized "size" > From man calloc: > void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size); > .... > If nmemb or size is 0, then calloc() returns either NULL, or a unique > pointer value that can later be successfully passed to free(). > ..... > > Anyway thanks for your help, can you send me the valgrind output?. > Regards > Zad > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Noam Postavsky < > npost...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> Emanuele Placidi <emanuele.plac...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > I would to point out a strange behaviour when storing in a structure an >> > xmlChar pointer returned by xmlGetProp(). >> > In attach there is a very simple code which sig faults when compiled >> with gcc >> >> Well I didn't get a segfault on my machine using gcc 4.5.2 and libxml2 >> 2.7.8, but valgrind did indicate many errors. For instance line 369: >> >> reg=calloc(0,sizeof(struct register_desc)); >> >> You are allocating memory for 0 register_desc structs here. If this code >> ever worked it was only by accident. >> > >
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