[Tfug] Need help with a C++ algorithm

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com>:
> Hate to disagree with you there dude, but yes there is:


You're making a really heavy assumption on the implementation of malloc
to achieve your results.

You don't account for the fact that a pointer can point to a memory
region not created by malloc.

For example, replace your

start = malloc(strtol(argv[1],NULL,16) * sizeof(char));

with

char string[100];
start = string;

QED. :-)

Brian

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