Memory Allocation of a Struct

[r30028]

I'm having some trouble with dynamic memory allocation of a struct. The struct looks like this:

struct	J							
{
	int			w;
	int			s;	
};

During the execution of the program, the following line of code results in a crash, which when debugging was because of std::bad_alloc, which does not make any sense to me.

J* x = new J;

Any idea why this would cause a crash? It's just a simple dynamic allocation of a struct but in my program whenever it reaches that line the program crashes and shuts down.

[Ancient Dragon]

you probably trashed memory somewhere else before that line was executed. Most likely cause is writing beyone the bounds of a buffer, but there could be lots of other reasons too.

[Salem]

I'm guessing this isn't the first new call in your program, which probably means that some prior allocation has been trashed.

If you have a small, AND COMPLETE program which crashes you can show us, that may be of some use.

Otherwise finding the root cause gets pretty tricky.