Segmentation Fault in xaccFreeSplit

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jan 21 23:10:37 EST 2005


Quoting Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek at yahoo.com>:

> I'm kinda skeptical about using the contents of a freed Split to see if
> the Split has been freed, though.  What if something else has
> overwritten the freed memory?  Why is that particular pointer guaranteed
> to still be == (char *)1 if the split is run through the function again?

It's not.  The data could be completely bogus.  It's just a debugging tool.

-derek

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