I've somehow managed to fix that error through a sequence of attempts but cant figure out what fixed it. :| But the error was actually in another malloc. thanks to valgrind.

I'm stuck in another...

Thanks.I'll try them both.

wow..ok..the malloc casting was out of habit.I'll stop doing that

Second, are these the ONLY malloc calls in your code, or are there others?
> The WriteRiff function is in a separate program that...

that doesnt seem to be the problem. The input to the function short int *waveform was initialized in a similar manner.It didnt cause a problem.

I've included stdlib,no problem there.
Yes.It is an array of short ints
Here is the entire function


RiffWaveFile and RiffHeader are structures as follows.

gcc

Hi,
I need an array of approx. 2,00,000 elements.But malloc fails to allocate beyond 65872.
When I give
(short int*)malloc(sizeof(short int)*65000);
It works but seg faults when I give
(short...