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Is there a way to mark a chunk of allocated memory readonly?

if I allocate some memory using malloc() is there a way to mark it readonly. So memcpy() fails if someone …

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Heap corruption when returning from function inside a dll

I have a function with a prototype like the following: void function(std::string str); This function is called in …

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Immediate detection of heap corruption errors on Windows. How?

I can't sleep! :) I have a reasonably large project on Windows and encountered some heap corruption issues. I have read …

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Heap corruption in C

int main () { int * b; b = (int*) malloc (1); *b=110000; free (b); return 0; } Why does heap corruption happen at free (b);? IMO, …

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