[R] pdf error msg

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Tue May 31 18:03:37 CEST 2005


On Tue, 31 May 2005, Matt McCall wrote:

> *** malloc[477]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x143cf5c0; This 
> could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated 
> block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>

And this is a double free(). It looks as though the function for creating 
a PDF device used not to free the passed-in structure in case of error, 
but it now does.

Thanks for reporting this.

 	-thomas




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