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Subject: Re: TC 2.0 odd behaviour, me or it ?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 17:17:47 GMT
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In article <7129@castle.ed.ac.uk>, djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes:
>I have a program compiled under TC 2.0 which executes perfectly except
>that it generates a Null pointer assignment AFTER the last instruction
>(as determined by putting a puts() in and getting the error message
>after the intentonal one).
>
>Anyone know why this might be happening ?
>
>Murff...

Isn't this in the FAQ? 

Anyway, you are overwriting a memory location. Check your code for pointers 
that aren't malloc'd. Whenever I get this, it's usually because I created a 
pointer but didn't assign it to something (by using malloc or = "xxx").

Carl Schelin
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