Hi I am doing a project about hamming code, the input is the length of the hamming code and if the parity is even or odd. I am getting a few errors that I cannot figure out how to fix.

Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<math.h>
/*global vars */
   int length;
   int parity;
   char *hamming_string=NULL;

    void enter_params(){
   /* declare local vars */
   /* prompt for length of hamming code, parity */
      printf("Enter the length of the hamming code: ");
      scanf("%d", &length);
      printf("Enter the parity (0=even, 1-odd): ");
      scanf("%d", &parity);
   /* alocate space for hamming code */
      hamming_string=(char*)malloc(length*sizeof(char));
      return;
   }

    void check(){
   /* declare local vars */
      int i;
      int j;
      int k;
      int start;
      int step;
      int parity_check;
      int error_bit;
      int num_parity_bits;
      printf("Enter the Hamming code: ");
      scanf("%s", hamming_string);
      num_parity_bits=ceil(log(length)/log(2));
      for(i=0; i<num_parity_bits; i++){
         parity_check=parity;
         error_bit=0;
         start=pow(2,i);
         step=2*start;
         error_bit+=parity_check*start;
         for(j=start; j<length; j=j+step)
            for(k=j; k<start+step&&k<length; k++)
               parity_check=parity_check^(hamming_string[length-k]-'0');
      }
      if(error_bit != 0){
         if(hamming_string[length-error_bit]=='0'){
            printf("There is an error in bit: %d", hamming_string[length-error_bit]=='0');
            hamming_string[length-error_bit]='1';
            printf("\n");
         }
         else{
            hamming_string[length-error_bit]='0';
         }
         printf("The corrected Hamming code is: %s", hamming_string);
         printf("\n");
      }
      
      else{
         printf("There is no bit error");
         printf("\n");
      }
   	
   	
      return;
   }



   /* void exit(){
      if(hamming_string!=NULL){
         free(hamming_string);
      }
   }*/


    int main(){
      int choice = 0;
      while(choice!=3){
         printf("Error detection/correction:\n");
         printf("----------------------\n");
         printf("1) Enter parameters\n");
         printf("2) Check Hamming code\n");
         printf("3) Exit\n");
         printf("\n Enter Selection: ");
         scanf("%d", &choice);
         if(choice==1){
            enter_params();
            printf("\n");
            main();
         }
         else if(choice==2){
            check();
            printf("\n");
            main();
         }
         /*else if(choice==3){
            exit();
         }*/
         return 1;
      }
   }
when i input the length as 7 and the parity as 0 , then the hamming code as 1000110.
i am getting the output that there is no error, when i should get there is an error in bit 6 and the corrected hamming code should be 1100110.

then when i input the length as 7 and the parity as 1, and then the hamming code as 1000110. i get the correct error bit as 1 but when it corrects it i get 1001110 instead of 1000111.


any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks