Re: [Valgrind-users] What does this mean: malloc with N1 bytes inside a block of size N2 alloc'd

[Yuri <yu...@ra...>]

On 12/02/2011 19:04, Brad Hards wrote:
> The meaning depends on the context, which you haven't provided. One
> possibility is that you've malloc'd a char foo[51], and are writing beyond the
> bounds of that array, say with a long at foo[48];

Error is printed for the malloc call itself. Below in stack is STL 
string constructor, like this: std::basic_string<char, 
std::char_traits<char>, ...
If writing would have occurred like you suggested, the error would have 
been printed for the function where writing was performed.

Yuri