Thread: free-ing un-malloc-ed memory

Originally Posted by Bladactania

I seem to remember seeing somewhere that you cannot allocate memory for a pointer that is already set to NULL. Is this true?

Huh? If what you mean by this is:

Code:

int *ptr = NULL;
ptr = malloc(...);

would be wrong, then you have misunderstood. This code-snippet is perfectly valid and correct.

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Mats