memory corruption

Question

i was running a small c program:

#include
int main()
{
char *p;
p = (char *)malloc(10);
free(p);
free(p);
free(p);
printf(\"\\npointer is freed!!\         


        

Answer 1

I would expect DEBUG builds of most compilers to be able to detect this type of a failure and report exactly what happened. So would MSVC do.

In RELEASE, it could be optimized to generate unpredictable behavior faster.