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# 8  
Old 02-04-2016
Hi, could you test with:
Code:
typedef struct {
 FILE *fp;
 int type;
 char buf[4096];
 } wrap;

Regards.
# 9  
Old 02-04-2016
Already did. It crashes.
# 10  
Old 02-04-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
OS is Linux, compile command is gcc. It crashes three different versions in three machines and two architectures.
Same compile command on each? Any optimizations? Can you add code to print out the actual value of the pointer right after allocation and right before freeing it?

Or you can valgrind it.

And what exact version(s) of GCC, Linux, etc. are you using? Along with the two architectures.
# 11  
Old 02-04-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by achenle
Same compile command on each?
Yes.

Quote:
Any optimizations?
I tried adding -m32 to see if a different architecture would help. It didn't.

I also added -ggdb to see if I could trace what was happening, but it remains a mystery.

Quote:
Can you add code to print out the actual value of the pointer right after allocation and right before freeing it?
Omitted for brevity, I had printed the values of every pointer almost continuously throughout the program; they don't change.

Its like fgets() has decided to just leap into incorrect memory and mangle it. Smilie
# 12  
Old 02-04-2016
I've tested and found that memset(d->buf, 100,0); instead of fgets does not crash. It's not the act of setting those 100 bytes that causes the crash, it may be related to the file pointer somehow.
# 13  
Old 02-04-2016
OK, that was weird.

Code:
        wrap *wrap=malloc(sizeof(wrap));

This, folks, is why you don't ever name your variable the same name as a type.

size of structure: 4K and a bit.
size of pointer: 8 bytes.
sizeof(wrap): ambiguous.

Solved.
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