Why do I get a C malloc assertion failure?

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99.9% likely that you have corrupted memory (over- or under-flowed a buffer, wrote to a pointer after it was freed, called free twice on the same pointer, etc.)

Run your code under Valgrind to see where your program did something incorrect.

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