Question

I’m trying to free memory that’s reallocated but I get an error…

float * foo = NULL;
float * bar = NULL;

void update()
{
    ...
    foo = (float *)malloc( a * 2 * sizeof(float));
    ...
    bar = (float *)realloc( foo, a * 2 * sizeof(float));
    ...
    free( foo );
    ...
    // when i do
    if(bar != NULL)
    {
        free(bar); // <-- error at executing
    }
}

I get error: http://d.pr/mpBF and visual studio shows me the following file:

osfinfo.c
=========
void __cdecl _unlock_fhandle (
        int fh
        )
{
        LeaveCriticalSection( &(_pioinfo(fh)->lock) );
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

When you realloc memory you should not free the old memory.

bar = (float *)realloc( foo, a * 2 * sizeof(float));
free( foo ); // <-- this is wrong

You want:

float * foo = NULL;

void update()
{
    ...
    foo = (float *)malloc( a * 2 * sizeof(float));
    ...
    float * bar = (float *)realloc( foo, a * 2 * sizeof(float));
    if(bar)
       foo = bar;
    ...
    free(foo);
}