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Author In case of a pointer points to freed location
Thone M

2005-09-25, 6:59 pm

I have several threads in my program may point to the same shared memory.
Is there anyway to check the existance of the data they are pointing, i.e.,
if one of the pointer may frees the allocated memory without other knowing.
Måns Rullgård

2005-09-25, 6:59 pm

thone@Tramp.eng.sun.com (Thone M) writes:

> I have several threads in my program may point to the same shared memory.
> Is there anyway to check the existance of the data they are pointing, i.e.,
> if one of the pointer may frees the allocated memory without other knowing.


If you need such functionality your design is broken.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
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