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When my program accessed a bad pointer, the error message reported the wrong data area. Why?

April 26, 2017accessed area bad Data Error message pointer program reported wrong

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When my program accessed a bad pointer, the error message reported the wrong data area. Why?

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When your program accesses an invalid data area, Memory Advisor provides information about the data area that it thinks your program was attempting to access. This evaluation can sometimes be off by one or more segments if the error was the result of an extended overwrite. If this happens, use the MA_DISPLAY_LINKS option to increase the number of adjoining segments that display with error messages. If you set this option to 2, Memory Advisor displays the two data segments that immediately precede the one associated with the error, and the two data segments that immediately follow it.