From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Sep 21 00:07:07 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACC1106564A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:07:07 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net)
Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6DC8FC27
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:07:07 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net)
Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101])
	by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFB3AFBC01;
	Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:07:06 -0800 (AKDT)
From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
 trashy_bumper@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:06:52 +0200
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7
References: <940047.3009.qm@web110507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <940047.3009.qm@web110507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200809210206.52409.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault when free
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:07:08 -0000

On Saturday 20 September 2008 13:46:23 Nash Nipples wrote:


> can someone please explain to me what happens to the allocated memory
> called within a function assigned to its local pointer after this function
> ends

Ok - let's see if I get this right:
- the allocated memory
- called within a function
- assigned to a local pointer

Any malloc'ed memory is application global accessible. Assigning a pointer to 
a variable doesn't allocate memory (the compiler and runtime libraries 
already setup storage for the variable, at declaration time). So, I have no 
idea what you mean with the "called within a function" part.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.