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Questions - memory-corruption

C Function to return a String resulting in corrupted top size

I am trying to write a program that calls upon an [external library (?)] (I'm not sure that I'm using the right terminology here) that I am also writing to clean up a provided string. For example, if ...
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string

malloc

return-value

c99

memory-corruption

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The bug is this line: char * returnVal = malloc(sizeof(input)); The reason it is a bug is that it requests an allocation large enough space to store a pointer, meaning 8 bytes in a 64-bit program. W...
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