Re: any idea what might be wrong with this code?...

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:

> items=menu_items(menu);
> if(items==NULL) return;
>
> count=item_count(menu);
> if(count==ERR || count==0) return;
>
> if(free_menu(menu)==E_OK)
> {
>         for(i=0;i<count;i++)
>         {
>                 text=(gchar*)item_name(items[i]);
>                 if(text!=NULL) g_free(text);      /* misbehaving line */
>                 free_item(items[i])               /* also misbehaving */
>         }
> }
>
> just to mention up front, all of the names and descriptions associated with 
> the ITEM were allocated with g_strdup()

I don't see the problem (the fragment looks close enough to the example
in test/ncurses.c).

> according to strace() i am trying to free an invalid pointer.

valgrind helps...

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