Re: Some strange error
david wrote:
It's still very strange... Tested the same code again inside on one of
the Linux machine (Debian) and code compiled very nicely, zero errors/
warning and etc, no run time errors.
Doing the same on FreeBSD machine it produces run time error, program
is compiled into "pirma", and after execution it works as it should be
and after some time it throws multiple lines of "pirma in free():
warning: chunk is already free" and some parts of program works
completely wrong.
And I don't use free() in any part of code. I still think that
compiler/some libraries in this machine might be broken and the error
could be produced no in my code. The code is too simply and it runs on
other machines.
You are probably running into undefined behavior. Undefined behavior means
that the standard doesn't define what will happen in some situations. For
example: the following is undefined behavior:
char* foo;
delete foo;
foo wasn't initilialized, it could point to anything. It might point to
address 0 so would be a null pointer, or some compilers might point it to
some random spot in memory or.. anywhere. So the delete foo could do
differnet things on differnet compilers. It's undefined.
So your code could have undefined behavior that works one way on Debian, one
way on FreeBSD. I would suggest you create the smallest compilable program
that will produces this behavior on FreeBSD and post here it.
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