Memory, tools, and overflows

[aggarg (Gaurav Aggarwal)]

@madyn

If the union is not properly instantiated, that is, it’s created out of sequence somehow

This is still not clear.

@madyn

This requires that the declaration be a non-pointer declaration. I did have it (at one time) a pointer, but the way the code seems to work tried to execute the memset with null pointers.

Are you saying that you declared a pointer and then called memset on it? Something like the following:

DHCP_MAP_type * ptr;
memset( ptr, 0, sizeof(DHCP_MAP_type));

If that is the case, it is wrong because no memory is allocated for DHCP_MAP_type and likely ptr will be initialized to NULL if it is global.

@madyn

So while I would like to be able to provide you the data you ask for, it no longer exists in code form, so all I am left with is guesses.

Glad that your issue is resolved.