Debugging with valgrind and gdb

Question

Good afternoon! This is my first post here!

I have an invalid write error when I use valgrind, but when I can figure it when I use gdb!

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #define MAX_INDEX 2

 void *z_m = 0;
 struct block {
    struct block * suiv;
 };

 //Declaration of a global array 
 struct block * tzl[MAX_INDEX+1];

 //Function used to dislay tzl in the main.
 void display() {
    for(int i=0; i<=MAX_INDEX; i++) {
        struct bloc * tmp = tzl[i];
        printf("%d  =>  ",i);
        while (tmp!=NULL) {
            printf(" %li  ->",(unsigned long)tmp);
            tmp = tmp -> suiv;
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
 }

 int main() {
    z_m = (void *) malloc(1<<MAX_INDEX);
    for (int i=0; i<MAX_INDEX; i++) 
    {
         tzl[i] = NULL;
    }
    tzl[MAX_INDEX] = z_m;
    //Here is the problem with valgrind
    tzl[MAX_INDEX] -> suiv = NULL;
    display();
    free(z_m);
    return 0;
}

What can be the problem? Thank you for answering.

Answer 1

You are initializing tzl[2] with a pointer to a block of 4 bytes:

tzl[MAX_INDEX] = z_m;    /* z_m is malloc(4) */

But you are then treating it as a pointer to struct block :

tzl[MAX_INDEX] -> suiv = NULL;

Declare z_m as struct block * and change malloc(1<<MAX_INDEX) to malloc(sizeof(struct block)) for a start.

You should also check to make sure malloc did not return NULL, and you should probably refrain from casting malloc 's return value.