Hi, i don't understand how this happen. This is portion of my code..

   int isGoal(Node *node, int startNode){

       int i;
   .
   .
   }

When i debug this using gdb i found out that 'i' was allocated at the memory address that have been previously allocated.

(gdb)print &node->path->next
$26 = (struct intNode **) 0xffbff2f0

(gdb) print &i
$22 = (int *) 0xffbff2f0

node->path->next has been already defined outside this function. But as u can see they share the same address which at some point make the pointer point to another place when the i counter is changed.

I compiled it using gcc on solaris platform Any helps would be really appreciated..