Examples of errors detected by the V726 diagnostic

V726. Attempt to free memory containing the 'int A[10]' array by using the 'free(A)' function.

DuckStation

V726 An attempt to free memory containing the 'wbuf' array by using the 'free' function. This is incorrect as 'wbuf' was created on stack. log.cpp 216

template<typename T>
static ALWAYS_INLINE void FormatLogMessageAndPrintW(....)
{
  ....
  wchar_t wbuf[512];
  wchar_t* wmessage_buf = wbuf;
  ....
  if (wmessage_buf != wbuf)
  {
    std::free(wbuf);
  }
  if (message_buf != buf)
  {
    std::free(message_buf);
  }
  ....
}

Shareaza

V726 An attempt to free memory containing the 'szXMLNorm' array by using the 'free' function. This is incorrect as 'szXMLNorm' was created on stack. utils.c 92

int SetSkinAsDefault()
{
  TCHAR szXMLNorm[MAX_PATH];
  ....
  else {
    free(szXMLNorm);
    return 0;
  }
  return 1;
}

CamStudio

V726 An attempt to free memory containing the 'p' array by using the 'free' function. This is incorrect as 'p' was created on stack. playplusview.cpp 7059

int CopyStream(PAVIFILE pavi,PAVISTREAM pstm)
{
  ....
  BYTE p[20000];
  ....
  free(p);
  return 0;
}