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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:56:12+00:00

I keep encountering this Debug assertions failed! error when I run my program in

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I keep encountering this "Debug assertions failed!" error when I run my program in debug mode. I tried looking this error up on the visual C++ website but the explanations are too advanced for me and they don’t have any resemblance to what my best guess as to the problem is.

I have went through my code and narrowed down the point at which the error occurs. It seems to be happening in the portion of code where I manually delete a whole bunch of heap arrays before the computer moves onto the next part of the program. When I comment out the section that frees up the old heap arrays, the program runs perfectly fine.

Any idea whats going on here? My knowledge in programming is still relatively basic.

Thanks

I’m using Visual C++ 2008.

More information:

The break point triggers at this block of code:

 void operator delete(
    void *pUserData
    )
{
    _CrtMemBlockHeader * pHead;

    RTCCALLBACK(_RTC_Free_hook, (pUserData, 0));

    if (pUserData == NULL)
        return;

    _mlock(_HEAP_LOCK);  /* block other threads */
    __TRY

        /* get a pointer to memory block header */
        pHead = pHdr(pUserData);

         /* verify block type */
        _ASSERTE(_BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse));//<---- break point triggers 

        _free_dbg( pUserData, pHead->nBlockUse );

    __FINALLY
        _munlock(_HEAP_LOCK);  /* release other threads */
    __END_TRY_FINALLY

    return;
}

This code is from the tab: dbgdel.cpp

The section of my code that that I’ve “narrowed down” that causes this problem is this:

delete [] topQuadanglesPositions;
delete [] fourClamps;
delete [] precaculatedClamp1;
delete [] precaculatedClamp2;
delete [] precaculatedClamp3;
delete [] precaculatedClamp4;
delete [] area;
delete [] hullConfiguration;
delete [] output;
delete [] prunedListClamp1;
delete [] prunedListClamp2;
delete [] prunedListClamp3;
delete [] prunedListClamp4;
delete [] numValidLocations;

If i comment out this section, the program runs fine.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your code is corrupting the heap. The first snippet is from the C runtime library, the assert is telling you that your program is passing a bad pointer value to the delete operator.

    Commenting out the delete statements merely hides the problem. It will come back to haunt you a different way when you keep developing the program. There are some debugging tips in this thread. Learning how to catch these kind of bugs is a rite of passage for any C or C++ programmer. Welcome to the group.

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