OFFTOPIC : Re: [SDL] segmentation fault

[Thomas Krennwallner]

On Wed Feb 26, 2003 at 11:55:00AM +0100, the boisterous
Julien Pauty <jpauty at irisa.fr>
wrote to me:
>     char * buffer = malloc(1000000);
>     if (buffer == NULL)
>     {
>       perror ("Error");
>       *buffer = 2;
>     }

You are trying to access a buffer which points to NULL. This has nothing
to do with your memory leak. It's obvious that this is a nogo.

so long
Thomas

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