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I get SIGSEGV in malloc, calloc, realloc, or free. Are they buggy?

April 26, 2017buggy Free malloc SIGSEGV

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I get SIGSEGV in malloc, calloc, realloc, or free. Are they buggy?

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No, they are probably not buggy. These four functions are some of the most often used code in the entire system. If there were any major bugs, they would have been found and fixed long ago. When one of these functions produce a SIGSEGV in more than 99% of the cases it will be a bug in your code.