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    The purpose of the
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    	for (p = freeptr; !(bp > p && bp < p->s.ptr); p = p->s.ptr)
    		/*if (p >= p->s.ptr && (bp > p || bp < p->s.ptr))
    		{
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    			break;  freed block at start or end of arena
    		}*/
    section is to find the free block before or after the current block and join those two blocks together, to reduce heap fragmentation.

    [At least, that's what it looks like].

    Obviously, falling off the edge of mymalloc is a bad thing, and a good compiler should spot that there's a possibility of that. If you don't want to break a new block of "OS" memory, then at least return NULL.

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    No the malloc is actually fine. It is the fault of the free. What are the reasons that I get a segmentation fault, here? It successfully deletes 2 memory slots, then I get a segmentation fault.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron View Post
    No the malloc is actually fine. It is the fault of the free. What are the reasons that I get a segmentation fault, here? It successfully deletes 2 memory slots, then I get a segmentation fault.
    As to the segmentation fault, it's possible that as your for-loop goes, p gets set to NULL or something equally devastating, at which time trying to do p->whatever makes the computer go boom.

    And our point is that, even though your malloc appears to work, you are very possibly not leaving freeptr, or the ptr links, in the correct state, so that later trying to do something with that memory will cause problems.

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    Wouldnt removing the for loop help?

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    forget it stupid question

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    Question: Can we have more than 3 condition in a for loop?
    example, more than just initializing, field and increment
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron View Post
    Question: Can we have more than one condition in a for loop?
    If you want to hook them together with && or || as appropriate, sure. (Note: your for loop currently has two conditions in it -- the for loop won't stop until both are true.)

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    No, what I meant is, can I initialize two varibales, put a condition and increment any one variabel in the same for loop.

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    You can do whatever you want.
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    for (a = 5, b = 19, c = q*4, d = 11876; a < b; a++, b--, d /=4)
    Note , instead of ;. (You also already have this in your code too! The for loop in mymalloc does two things at the end of every loop.)

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    OK, I finally figured what wrong. In the for loop I just assigned p to a prevptr, before doing any changes to p pointer. Every time I make the content of the node free, or malloc it, I label the node as occupied or free. Now the code works, beautifully.

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