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[u/LostgamerFJ]

I'm not good enough at programming for this. What do the "free" and "malloc" functions do?

[u/LucyShortForLucas → u/LostgamerFJ]

They are core C functions. malloc allocates N bytes of memory, free frees that memory. * is t he dereference operator, so *x is trying to dereference freed memory, which is undefined behavior

[u/DiodeInc → u/LucyShortForLucas]

I thought * was a pointer. Isn't it? How is it dereferencing freed memory?

Or is it because it's returning *x that's the bug?

[u/Vimda → u/DiodeInc]

* in a variable declaration incidates a pointer type, * in a statement is the dereference operator

[u/DiodeInc → u/Vimda]

I see. Thanks