Invalid Allocation Size

[TheCrappyProgrammer]

Occasionally, my program gets a Debug Error saying
"Invalid allocation size: 4294967292 bytes."

Does anyone know what usually causes this?

 

[tchouch]

You have a memory - allocation command with the size of -4, for example:
char * ptr = new char [-4];
It may be malloc(), VirtualAlloc(), HeapAlloc() etc.
-4 is converted to unsigned FFFFFFFC, and it is too many.
I think, You do not have -4 directly, but an another Function returns wrong size that is then ysed to alloc memory.